Te Kooti’s Movements.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 15, 16 July 1887, Page 3

Te Kooti’s Movements.

The old constantly - recurring Te Kooti scares, which used to frighten timid people in the outlying districts, seem now to be gradually dying out, and Te Kooti is getting to be looked on merely as an interesting, but harmless, old monster. He is too cunning, with all the talk, to pay us a visit and yisk the wrath of those whose memories of the past are very painful. According to the Opotiki Herald Te Kooti returned from Maraenui the other day and was then at Hira Te Popo’s pah in Waieoka. On coming up the beach, on Sunday before last, he sent forward a message to the magist rate to know f there would be any objection to his passng through the town, and being informed there would be no objection, Te Kooti and the whole party, numbering 380, came on and rode slowly down the street in excellent order. Several visitors from town endeavored to see him in the evening, but a barrier of ropes had been drawn round the whare in which Te Kooti had taken up his quartern, and’no one was allowed to pass through the ropes. Some say he was in dread of being shot, but this report is hardly credited. A writer in the Opotiki Herald, referring to Te Kooti. says :—I hear he intends to again visit Opotiki in July 1888. Then on to Poverty Bay but as he has so many times said he is going there I do not think there is much chance of his going as the opinion here is that if he does he is certain to be shot. I think he knows himself that it would not ba safe to visit the place of his old misdeeds,