THE MAUNGAKAWA MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 289, 5 December 1889, Page 5

THE MAUNGAKAWA MEETING.

MANIFESTO BY TAWHIAO.

News from Cambrid E e, Waikato, states that the large native gathering of the tribes adhering to •' King " Tawhiao at the settlement of Maungakawa, near Cambridge, broke up yesterday after a good deal of speechifying by the chiefs and leading men in the Ngatihaua, Ngatipaoa, Nea'iterangi, and other tribes, lawhiao did not attend, bucremained at his settlement of Pukekawa, near Mercer, on the Waikato River. He, however, sent his representatives, Tihirabi and Te Kawhiti, with a teraely-worded letter, as follows :-' Although I am a small man I am thesucessor of Potatau, and; adhere to his words. Let the tribes be united ; let the young chiefs join the old chiefs, and the old Let a Maori Parliament be established. The crop to be'sown therein is: Abolish 4e native members in the European Parliament, native assessors, surveys, Native Land Courts, sales of land leases, schools, gold mining on native land, roads, to obey European summonses. In Sses between Maoris oSly let Maori tribunSs decide these. Cease to acknowledee Sβ authority of the inferior race (Europeans) tWpakeba religion; u P - it would appear the native gathering;