TARANAKI NEWS.
New Plymouth, October 20. The Parihaka meeting has terminated for this month, and this morning several hundred natives passed through town on their way home. Te Whiti delivered his special speech on Friday last, but it was simply a repetition of his former speeches, the only noticeable change in his views being that he was not quite ao sanguine as hitherto of the triumphal return of the prisoners from Wellington. The great sickness which has prevailed at Parihaka has had tbe effect of driving away all the natives who did not live there — their faith in the prophet not being sufficient to rely upon him as the healer of the people's afflictions. Te Whiti's claim to divine authority has received a decided check by the recent outbreak of disease — the more devoted of his followers being now constrained to admit that the prophet cannot heal diseases in the manner they had expected. Te Whiti may now be considered (for the time being) deserted by his people, as it is the generally expressed determination of the natives that they will not return to Parikaha so long as sickness prevails there.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3486, 22 October 1879, Page 2
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191TARANAKI NEWS. Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3486, 22 October 1879, Page 2
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