NAPIER.
Friday. The rebel Te Kooti has assumed a new character—that of miracle-worker and healer of maladies. For many months past the Maoris from Poverty Fay and Wairoa (Hawke's Bay) districts afflicted with disease have made pilgrimages to Te Kooti's residence in the King country, and, strange to Bay, have come back cured. It is very little use to tell a native that the sorcerer is practising on the credulity and superstition ef the people when he can point to undoubted cases of cure; and 10 the fame of Te Kdoti is rapidly spreading all over the whole island, and the influence he is thereby obtaining is not likely to be less than when he led all the bloodthirsty scoundrels of his race to the massacre of English women and children. Those who know the natives best are watching their movements with some anxiety.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2847, 30 March 1878, Page 2
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144NAPIER. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2847, 30 March 1878, Page 2
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