THE DEATH OF TE WHITI.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14538, 25 November 1907, Page 3

THE DEATH OF TE WHITI.

[Per Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, November 24. , Tho Parihaka tangi continues on a decreasing scale. After feasting on Friday afternoon speechifying in Maori was resumed till darkness fell. Nothing new transpired, the majority of the speakers advising the Maori'to how to the inevitable. The dream of Maori nationhood had gone. The page of Maori history .conceived by Te Whiti that the Maori should,be a separate, self-contained, self-governing people had closed with tho passing of their chief. There had now been ian awakening and the old order muist give place to the new. Hundreds of sightseers have gone out from town to-day to visit the settlement where native hospitality is extended with open hand.