The Te Kooti Scare.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 68, 17 November 1887, Page 2

The Te Kooti Scare.

ACTION BY GOVERNMENT. The following telegram was received by Major Porter last night from Major Ropata, M.L.C.“ The Government have barred Te Kooti, and he will not visit Poverty Bay. I have written you on the subject."

The action taken by some of the leading natives in Poverty. Bay in arranging for Te Kooti to visit the scene of his atrocities next Christmas, is highly reprehensible, and should be put down with a strong hand. There is naturally great excitement in the Bay over the matter, and the old settlers are full of indignation at the very thought of the murderer being feted on the spot hallowed by the blood of his victims. It does, indeed, seem monstrous that this cold-blooded, cowardly, miscreant —the slaughterer of women and children should be allowed, with impunity, to return in triumph, and flaunt his power in the faces of those whose relations he so ruthlessly destroyed. However, there appears to be little doubt, judging from local feeling on the matter, that the avenging Nemesis will at last overtake the miscreant if he shows up at Poverty Bay, and that he will receive his quietus at the hands of one or other of those, who it is reported, have sworn to avenge the blood of their kindred. On this account the Government should take the strongest measures to prevent Te Kooti from visiting Poverty Bay, or serious trouble will be the result.—Wairoa Guardian.