TE WHITI AND TOHU AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6439, 2 December 1881, Page 7

TE WHITI AND TOHU AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

(from a correspondent.) November 12.

This morning the townspeople were considerably excited by the unexpected appearance of Te Whiti, Tohu, and Hiroki. The authorities had very wisely kept their intentions secret, so there was no undesirable stir or excitement. The three prisoners were brought in by an escort of the Taranaki Mounted Rifles, and lodged in the gaol, from which place they were taken, to the Court House, Hiroki on foot, while the others were conveyed in a close carriage. Te Whiti has a prepossessing countenance, with a mild and benevolent exEression, his movements are quick, and his earing is quiet and self-possessed. He passed through the assembled crowd with calm indifference, though there must have been much that was new and strange to him, for it is many years since he left the near neighborhood of Panhaka. Tohu remarkably fair in complexion, his bearing is stately, and his features very good—the nose straight, the forehead full and high, the whole expression mild and intellectual, as of one not easily roused to anger. Each wore a brown blanket loosely draped round the shoulders. Hiroki is a younglooking man, strongly built; but with nothing particularly ferocious in his appearance. He walked along with a quick observant look to right and left, but with neither fear nor embarrassment.