SATISFACTORY NEWS FROM WAIMATE.
We received the following telegram while going to press : Wellington, April 4, 10 p.m. The Hon, Mr Sheehan received to-night an exceedingly voluminous report of the meeting at Parihaka between Mr James Mackay and Te Whiti, and to-morrow he will receive Mackay’s recommendations and suggestions, he not being invested with powers to decide anything finally. The gist of the report is that Te Whiti, in his discussion with Mr Mackay, entirely laid aside his usual prophetical and ambiguous tone, and addressed himself to the matters in dispute in the most direct and intelligible way, without the use of that figurative form of expression customary with the native race. He stood out for at least a portion of land, deprecated being left impoverished, but at the same time scouted the idea of force being resorted to by himself or any section of his people, and reiterated there could be no war now, or at any other time between themselves and their European neighbors. It is considered that the whole tenor of the report indicates a speedy and satisfactory settlement of the present difficulty.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XIV, Issue 1122, 5 April 1879, Page 5
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186SATISFACTORY NEWS FROM WAIMATE. Marlborough Express, Volume XIV, Issue 1122, 5 April 1879, Page 5
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