TUHI'S LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR.
A letter, of which the following is a translation, was addressed by Tuhi to bis Excellency the Governor : — " The Gaol, 23rd December, 1880.— Go, this letter of mine to the Governor. — Friend, — Greeting, I have heard that I am to be put to death on Wednesday, and I am willing to die on that day ; but I have a word to say to you: Let my bad companions, your children, beer, rum, and other spirits, die with me. Let those persons, beer, rum, and other spirits, die with me ; they led us to commit wrong, and now let us die together one death on the day that lam to die. It will not be right that they survive that day, but I and my bad companions should die together, lest they should remain to lead people to death ; but as lam to die, let spirits die also ; do not leave any of its kind in the world; let it be destroyed from the face of this earth, lest it should remain to cause trouble to man ; man would then be answerable for his own troubles. If it was destroyed it would be well ; man would then seek his own troubles ; then it would be well, there would be no cause (for trouble). That is aU.-^3?ronar— ' — Tuhiata."
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 77, 5 January 1881, Page 4
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221TUHI'S LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 77, 5 January 1881, Page 4
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