TE KOOTI'S PROGRESS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2101, 24 December 1885, Page 2

TE KOOTI'S PROGRESS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

[IJY TKUMIUPH.— OWN C'OKRKSPONOKNT.] WEi-UNurov, Wednesday. Thk Native Minister continues to rou'ive telegrams «'f tho progress of Te Kooti a ton ito tho East Coast. M vny people seem to he raising objections to To Kooti» proirres- but tho Minuter cm do nothing. Bmcu tho Amne,ty Act Te Kooti is aa much a British subject as any Minister ol tho Crown, and the Ctowu iiu^t therefore extend tho same piotoctiou to fo Kooti as long as ho reumns a loyal and peaceable moinber of the community. To. Kooti telesnvph" to tho Native Minister tlut; he is being well received at the diffeient settle-

mont3 through which he passes. N.VPihR, Wednesday. To Kooti and about two bundled followers matched thiee abtcast into I'ot.ino Pah this morning. The procession was headed by a standard bearer with a white fl ur having the Union Jack in tho coi ncr, and' tho words "To Kooti "in black letters actoss tho white body of tho b inner. In tho procewion, boated in a bit^'y, w.is To Kooti, attended by three aide^ de cunp in uniform, and thirty women. They were received at the nvei by the Petino natives staik n.iked, :md the usual baibanc domoiistiation for >uch occasions took place. No arms were observed an.ongst Te Kooti t ih'oijlo Tho ret.me natives expect tho loading HiwUo's Biy settlors to pay repeat to Te Kooti, on the wound that he U a gie.itor general thin Sir Goo. Whitmoio, liaviug defeated him several tijnps. All the natives speak of "General la

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