FIFTY YEARS AGO
THREATS AGAINST TE KOOTI The Native Department received advice 50 years ago that the notorious Maori chief Te Kooti had started with 100 followers for Poverty Bay, the scene of the terrible massacre perpetrated by him 20 years previously Feeling in the Poverty Bay district was very antagonistic toward Te Kocti as shown by* the following extract friim an article which appeared in the Nisw Zealand Hebald of February 18, 1859: The Native Minister has received a great number of communications from the natives of the East Coast protesting against To Kooti being allowed to make an armed demonstration on the East Coast. Perhaps the result of this enterprise may be most serious for the person immediately concerned in it. If it should prove so, nobody here will regret it, for the language one hears respecting Te Kooti and his movements is of the strongest description. , f "The natives along one of the two roads which he will have to take have threatened to shoot him if he eomes near their settlement. Te Kooti, it appears, slaughtered a number of tie Ngatiparoa tribe during the terSbU raid 20 years ago and the relatives the murdered people have not forgotten him." * . : ;.v
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 8
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