THE WEST COAST NATIVES. Speeches by Te Whiti and Tohu.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2027, 4 July 1885, Page 2

THE WEST COAST NATIVES. Speeches by Te Whiti and Tohu.

(HT TI.LVOKVKH. — SPECtU. COKHK^rONnENT.) Wru-ivf.roN, Tuesday. The Native Minister laid on the table todiy copies of the follow :ng telegram^ : — "Opunake, 30th June, 188. T. Mi T. W. Lewis, Undei-Seciet.iry Native Office, Wellington. Yesteiday To Whiti and Toliu spoke m the marae nothing but peace. Mi Messenger will send full account by ni.ul. J. M. Koboits, Lieut. -Colonel. ' "Opunnke, l«t July, 188">. To Mr T. W. Lewis, Under-Secrctary Native Office, Wellington. The following .ue the *peechp* w hicb I w ired you yesterday were delivered on Monday : — To Whiti said, "The people are dead, and the hnd n dead. This gathei ing here to-d.vy is the gathering that was scatteied t > be dt^hoyed, but hcie we are to day. The only work for this generation is work like thu table of to-day, and we '•hall h\e. The trouble is past and gone and lost sight of. It w ill never be seen any more, ne\«i, ne\er again till the end of the woild. What I «ay is the same as Titokowaiusaid ypsteiday. What he said was quite tiuo." Tohu said, "lam a bad man. The trouble is lost sight of, and we shall nevei see it again. Let them (the Etuopeans) step on the land. Wo mu->t wait. There will not be two floods. We do not gathei in the maiae the same as we used to, waiting to hear me tell you what to do. No, that is a thing of the pa-.t. If any ono of you i-, dark and ask me what you aie to do, 1 shall say you had better go to England or Ku^sm, wheiethe trouble is, and ask them. If anyone thinks ho is going to bring in trouble here as it used to be, lie will ha\e to answer for it. If you cook a potato you cannot make it raw again. The fiuit of trouble is, a man is killed and rots, and is lost sight of, but this (pointing to the table), we see and see ngu'n. We will gathoi in the narac, and tins will not bo done away with till the end of the woild. Weeds will never giow in this maiae, but I will keep it for my people to gathei in. Wnikato, Taranaki, Ngaternanui, don't say this is what he say-, to-day, but to-moirow he will toll us different. Ah ! no, not to-monow, next month, a. year ; it will all bo the namo We all live. This generation will not be lost sight of. — J. M. Robert 1 -, Lieut-Col."

Livkrpooi, lias a good local story of a tiger which escaped from a menagerie ami tcnified the suburbs for some houis. In one outlying riistiict a man who had " lost tlic use of Ixitli legs " had set foi 20 ye.us— a study, stunted vagrant, nutkiug .1 good thing out of his infirmity. But in an oil hour for his piofessional ptofits the load wlieie lie had taken up Ins seat for a scoic of yens was on the morning of the tiger's escape a scene of fierce stampede. Down it poured pell mell — men, women and childien at full speed, sci earning with tenor, and crying out "The tiger ! the tiger ! " The ciipplc had heard the news of escape, and now fear lent him legs, or restored his old limbs; he started up, tlnew away the big bowl on which he sat doubled up every day, and, with an cnettjy which left nothing to be dcsiied, he bounded down the road, and soon outstripped all competitors. The tiger wns caught, but the " cripple " was never seen again — at least, in that [neighbourhood.