An Earnest Appeal.
Tins is a notification to a 1 the tribes, I liapus, and persons of eich and | overy Kaitiga situated within the I Western Maori Electoral District. Friends Vote For Me! I will bear on my shoulders the burden of your grievances and afflictions imdei which you for many years havo be> n : ul'fo iug and waiting and stiiving to overcome. When wi 1 you bo relieved of the same ? I ask you then to vote for me Although niy shoulders are too narrow to bear nil your troubles It so happened in the pas* in tho timo of my ancestors, I liken mysolf unto a Pokokeao (a slight cloud covering tho crown of a mountain) resting ou Mount M aua toa that when di>t'irbod by tho gale, in i's fury comes sweeping down, overwhelming the plain beneath. Sma 1 iv volume, yet Exco sior. Ye huinblo people -ye orphans — yo neglected people yo poor and ri.rh peopln vote for mo. Yo tribes of Now Zealand h-t not your hon-ts be divided regarding your votes. lam ia di seendant of the groa 1 , noble i Mango I'arungataki of Kaihamuwahamaua, of Kaurukikot.ihi, of ■Muiapoo and of Alio k aha. Do ! you be earnest, in your s ipport or I me seeing th it we aro of one cauoe, jan 1 1 ne race, i Ended are my words. ! ' »
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 30 October 1890, Page 2
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229An Earnest Appeal. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 30 October 1890, Page 2
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