THE INTENTIONS OF TE WHITI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5651, 27 December 1879, Page 5

THE INTENTIONS OF TE WHITI.

[by telegraph, own cor:r.i*po>-DEN-T.] Cambkidoe, Friday. I have had a visit from a native returned frtm a visit toTe W hitiat Parihaka, whither "he hr.d been to invito the " prophet" to tbe meeting t-j be held next month at Te Waotu. To WLiti declines to do anything beyond looking a'ter his own people. He was a J ke;i by my informant what he was going to do about tl.e solders. His reply was, " The same tnj' penp'e did who are prison." " I'.ut won't you '* No ; not if the la-t M.mri were to be killed and fightiuL' would save him." He then indulged in a number of niry tiight3 altogether beyond the comprehension of his visitor. He told him th-1 the Government had 800 men on the Coast doing nothing bnt marching about bloiviny away powder, and tbey were paying them £*10,000 a ni'.nth for doing it. My friend asked him liow he knew. _ He tried to make out that it was " a revelation" made to him, bnt that would not sati-fy his auditor, ao he said that "what he did not know the Government pakehas had told him." lie was sure about the money for another reason, namely, "because tiie publicans aud storekeepers were getting m rich, and there wa3 SI much drinking." If this is true, or bas truth for its foundation, what will be thought of a Government who, when asked about the Armed Ccn-tabulary Force when the Kstimatss were before the House, made it tco serious a question to be talked about except ill whispers ? Tlii< is the creme. de la cr'ni'.-Qi New Zealand politicians, who cannot to pivc us a branch railway, but nearly the cost of it every month at ~same of soldiers to fatten Taranaki.