TE WHITI'S SPEECH. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1206, 20 March 1880, Page 3

TE WHITI'S SPEECH. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Tlwrbilay. Yesterday afternoon Te Whiti again addressed the natives. He said: — I he laud is all covered with my blanket, and there is no room for any judge or commission to stay upon it. The blanket is mine, and those who want to know more about it must come to mo. The Government, in&toiid of making roacfa, should have come to me. Then everything- also might follow. They have tried to do without me, and therefore I shall do away with them, and they shall be as naught. The ro a d hat. been commenced from both cuds, but there is a sp;ice between which bebng*tonie. and will not be mule. Perhaps a stronsr man will arise, who may make a difference, that is to say, if he provo-i himself f.tivm er than I One of us hold^in hi^hand an aggressive weapon, and the other a staff, but there is one Lord o v er both. I bltl speaking the words of the Lord of Heaven. That is why the worr>B spoken today are not 'held over. The Government wants to get all the land in its poises-ion, so as to have strength, hut the land Uin ne. The road-making i-i ji piece of bia'jrgadocio on th^ pirt of the Government. What [tell you, I mean in its entirety. Everything I have spoken this day will happen find not p,is>. Government J.rj now nut-ide shooting at flix htick-. In '»ld"ii tim-s "en too •run-. fi> sh »4; men, no r . fl. ix-^^u-ks. The t topli* ibioid iriMiiinifth Cmjupmoii) whu a o looking ;it this cm do noihin^ U- ivci riincut might a.-> well h ive «ent Mt-ckb and htonos as the gV^ lfc meu ll °y li^vc. Ijju.iuio th_> psikdias avo rich mtu, and are great in fancied u isdoin, they atriume the

power of settling this question, but what I avid thiß day will not be deferred. Tiie measured ground shall not be trodden upon by others. I leave it now in the hards of Tohu and the Government to Bay who is right and who is wrong. The Government, in the height of their pride, are saying "There we havo done with you." That is all I have to say.