NEW PLYMOUTH.
V. ■■-■'. y Last night.
Natives are still passing through the tpwn on their way home from the Parihaka meeting. We learn from them that To Whiti has succeeded in still maintaining his claims to prophesying among the natives, and they thorougblj believing in' him as such. During the course of his speech he referred in rather strong terms to the native members of the House of [Representatives. He said they on'y went to Parliament for the sake of the money they got there, and not on account of the good work they could do the people. He told Wi Parata that he dispised the law courts and there were only two authorities in the Islands, the Governor and Te Whiti, and they must settle the disputes and not the law courts. The tenor of his remarks ' respecting the prisoners in Wellington went to show that he is beginning to assume less authority over them. He denied ever having said he would release the prisoners in September, and distinctly stated that the power of releasing them wns in the Government. Te Whiti gave his usual exhortations to the natives to keep stedfast in the faith, and to look to him for. gufdance.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3357, 25 September 1879, Page 2
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203NEW PLYMOUTH. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3357, 25 September 1879, Page 2
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