"Wahanui Convenes a Meeting of Kingites.
[Peb Pbess Association.]
Auckland, This day
Wahanui, feeling the heavy responsibility which he had taken upon himself at the recent meeting, when he assumed the whole burden of Kingism, and also the power and right to stop the tide of settlement if it so pleased him, has called a meeting of the most prominent chiefs who elected the first King Potatau. Potatau was elected by all the great chiefs of the southern portion of the North Island. Since the war a large number of the tribes who concurred in the election have seceded and sold their lands, such as the Ngatiraukawa, the Taupo, and Wanganui natives. Wahanui however, has decided to bring together as many as possible of the chiefs, or their representatives (who took part in the election), and it is surmised he means to point out that they have deserted the King, and to say that if an arrangement is to be made with the Europeans, it had better be with tbe consent, and at the instance of all those who concurred in the election of Potatau.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4329, 15 November 1882, Page 2
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185"Wahanui Convenes a Meeting of Kingites. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4329, 15 November 1882, Page 2
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