WAHANUI AND THE KING QUESTION.
|Bt Telegraph. | [united prebb association.] Auckland, This Dat. Wahanui, fooling the heavy responsibility wliioh ho liad taken upon himself at tho recent mooting, when ho assumed the wholo burden of Kingism, and also the power and right to stop tho tide of settlement, if it so ploasod him, has called a meeting of tho most prominent ehiofs, who oloctod tho first King Potatau. Potatau was elected by all tho great ohiofs of the southern portion of tho North Island. Sinoe the war a large number of tribes vrho oonourrod in the oleotion havo aoooded and sold their lands, such as the Ngatiratikawa, tho Taupo and Wanganui natives. Wahanui, however, has dcoidod to bring together v nutnr as possible of the chiefs or their representatives who took part in the bloction, and it is surmised he means to point out that they have deserted the King, and to say that if an arrangement is to bo mado with the EuropoanH, it had better be done with thooonoent and at the inetanoe of ollthoße who oonourrod in the election of Potatau.
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Evening Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 99, 15 November 1882, Page 2
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184WAHANUI AND THE KING QUESTION. Evening Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 99, 15 November 1882, Page 2
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