TAWHIAO AND HIS WIVES.
The Auckland correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says ; —There has been a crisis in the domestic affairs of Tawhiao, although the matter has been discreetly passed over in silence by the local Press, On the return of Tawhiao’s wife Parehauraki from her mission to the Native Minister (Mr Bryce), it became bruited among the Kingites that she had fallen a victim to the seductive pleasures of the Provincial capital. The “ green-eyed monster” became developed in Tawhiao. and she was called to account. Further investigation proved that the calumnitr was an invention of the enemy—wife No 2, who is a deadly rival of Parehautaki (wife No 4,) the young and reigning favorite of the royal quartette. Tawhiao, who is a man of peace, has had a lively time of it among his wives, one of them having eloped recently with one of his chiefs. He is inclined now to believe that polygamy has its peculiar trials as well as its blessings. The Maoris, who have a proverb that the root of all trouble is “ women and land,” point triumphantly to the episode above referred to as a further convincing proof of the truth of the adage.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 949, 11 May 1882, Page 3
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200TAWHIAO AND HIS WIVES. Temuka Leader, Issue 949, 11 May 1882, Page 3
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