THE PARIHAKA MEETING.
[Specially Telegraphed to Stab.] (from our own correspondent.) Pungarehu, Yesterday.' The Parihaka meeting closed last night. Of the returned prisoners, some go to Waitara to help to thresh wheat, and all collect at Parihaka next month. Te Whiti spoke once, and.Tohu twice. The speeches were of the usual pacific, ♦ and yet confident, character.- They exhorted the people to piWerye their present peaceful attitude. l\ It would appear that*pWje returned prisoners are very overbearing in their demeanor, and proud of their achieve* ments, and Te Whiti thougtftvit necessary to impress upon them the advisability of not quarrelling, and said that it was foretold of old that some should be taken, and the others left, and all - were equally great in his eyes. Though a small tribe, they were the greatest of all ; and, like the centre ' pole of the whave, they hold up the whole structure of society, as the pole holds up the roof. There was still a time to elapse, but only a short one, before all was completed. * The whole was to be finished on the advent of one man, and the land will be returned in the .same way as the prisoners. • • ...
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 89, 19 February 1881, Page 2
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198THE PARIHAKA MEETING. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 89, 19 February 1881, Page 2
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