IMPORTANT KINGITE MEETING CALLED.
(per united press association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Wahanui, feeling the heavy responsibility which he had taken upon himself at the recent meeting when he assumed the whole burden of kingism and also the power and right to stop the tide of settlement if it so pleased him, has called a meeting of most of the prominent chiefs who elected the first King Potatau. Potatau was elected by all the great chiefs of the southern portion of the North Island. Since the war, a large number of the tribes who were concerned in the election have seceded and sold their lands, such as the Ngntiratikawa, the Taupo and Wanganui natives. Wahanui, however, has decided to bring togeeher as many as possible of the chiefs or their representatives who took part in the election, and it is surmised he means to point out that they have deserted the king, and to say that if an arrangement is to be made with the Europeans it had better be done with tbo consent and at the instance of all those who conferred in the election.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 345, 15 November 1882, Page 2
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185IMPORTANT KINGITE MEETING CALLED. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 345, 15 November 1882, Page 2
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