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English
Honi Wiremu of Putiki a young intelligent chief gives me the following information respecting the first probable cause of outbreak that may be expected at Wanganui Ngatiruaka of tauitinui at Pukihika - are not yet satisfied for the young men hung in the Gilfillan affair and their threats lately made are to the effect that they must either have Europeans or natives when they can as payment - this tribe are the near relatives of those who were hung they would carry out their design on either native