A MAORI PROPHET EXPLAINS AND PROPHESIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8090, 7 January 1903, Page 2

A MAORI PROPHET EXPLAINS AND PROPHESIES.

By Telegraph. Manaia, January 7. ■At the l'arihaka. Maori meeting, which has just been concluded, tlic Waimote Witness' correspondent states, Toliu, the pro. pliet, explained with reference to his former prediction that King- Edward never would tie crowned that he meant the. King would not be crowned over all the people. Nor was he at the Coronation, lie was only crowmed King of a.portion of the people In proof lie showed that numbers of people at the present time wore up in anna against the King's authorities. These lights were the precursors of bigger struggles, which would terminate in an Armageddon upheaval. The Mosaic dispensation, he told the natives, was a. failure, while the Clu-istian era came to an end. with the close of 1902. The prophets of these Sspensations had foretold the coming of a greater prophet than they. Toliu inferred that lie was that prophet. Ho commanded his followera to live better lives henceforth ; to live in charity with one another; to bear with fortitude, the iniquitous treatment meted out to (hem by the tyrannous pakcha, whoso days were numbered. During the present year many great things would happen, in which the Maoris would come nut triumphantly. His followers, who aiv. very numerous in this province, believe in him implicitly. To Whiti, th<' rival prophet, was left oik in tbp cold during the korero. Tohu is not on partial--I,'irly enod (onus with Te Whiti, whose. position he isAppidly usurping. Tohu considers Ihal, jp Whiti exhibits too much of a. leaning tlfw.-irds (lie paliehas arid their eu-toins, and novel" misses mi opportunity of slimviim bis animosity, nor fails to influence ll H e,e. in power against the older and belter known Inhungii.