TE WHITI ON THE GOVERNMENT.
0 Over two thousand natives were present at the meeting at Parahaka, which lasted four days. Te Whiti likens himself to the stone which was discarded in ancient times, and informed us that it has been found, and upon its being raised up would settle all disputed matters; and ho likens the actions the Governmsnt are taking to the spurring of a horse, inciting them. The ruling of everything is given to him. If the Government wished to discharge the prisoners from prison, he says they could not do it without he consents. He is gradually losing caste. Waikato challenged him to raise the stone, and let them see and believe. He answered tha f the working of the cultivations ros) with the owners, and that when the fi'J/jJ was ripe he (the owner) would gather ic."j He sent the prisoners, he says, not toj plough the land, but the belly of the Government, Altogether, the feeling isl not so friendly as heretofore towards the Government. He is a grub, and the Europeans a pumpkin plant, although look-ers-on (the Europeans) cannot see that the grub is eating the roots and killing the plant. His (Te Whiti's) sword is sharp at both sides for Europeans and Maoris,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 275, 27 September 1879, Page 2
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211TE WHITI ON THE GOVERNMENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 275, 27 September 1879, Page 2
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