WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH TE WHITI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 549, 30 June 1879, Page 3

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH TE WHITI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

8i* — It seems strange to allow Te Whlti, in tho present threatening aspect of affairs, to retain his hold upon the native mind by means of b's supposed prophetic powers, when he could so easily bo openly proved a humbug It appears that ha has prophes'ed t'jat the pakehas will take him, at)d that his people will not resist, and also that Hiroki will be taken al the same time. He further prophesies that we shall kill him, and that he will rise again on the third day Now let a sufficient fores go to Parlhaka and fulfil tho first part of his prophecy, whoa tie will have peacably to surrender or own himself a liar ; and the Maorii are quite shrewd enough to put this and thai together, and see the humbug of the thing Should he surrender without a fipr'jt, we cat then prevent the fu>filTient of the second par of his prophecy by sending him to some safi placo of keeping, to be produced when necessary Surely so simple & manner of proving thi hollowness of To Whiti's claims is worth try> ing, more especially as a firm policy h mud needed to prevent the colony from drifting inti Jjpativo war. |B I am, kkef. f ™ CHAEI.HS HEWDREY. Wellington, 30th Juno, 1879-