AUCKLAND, Last Night. (OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE PARIHAKA MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1204, 16 March 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND, Last Night. (OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) THE PARIHAKA MEETING.

The Star's correspondent, New Plymouth, telegraphs: — '" A good number of Europeans, now here, contemplate starting to-morrow for Parihaha to attend Wednesday's meeting, being anxious to be present at such an unusual gathering of natives, and to hear what the prophet has to say for himself, This time the attendance will be unusually large, and some of the natives who are not unquestioning believers in TeWhiti's powers are desirous of hearing something more definite from him than he has yet vouched. The dominant idea with the natives is the hope of recovering all their lauds in some mysterious way. The cultivations around Parihaka are something immense for a Maori village, but the seclusion of Pavihaka and its prophet must soon pass away." COMINfi EVENTS. The Constabulary are now engaged upon a road which will go within lialf-a-niile of the village, and as s>oon as> that is done the bagmen will make their appearance, and the trade in rum and colored calico will finish Te WJnti oil-hand. One batch of the Wellington imemploped commence, in a day or two, making the road from Stratford to Oyunake, a distance of 20 miles. The greater part through bush.