KOPUA.
_. ' This Day. Sir George Grey addressed the natives on Friday, saying the answer to l'awniao s assertion " I claim the whole land from North to South," given by tribes, when they said •« We know nothing of you or your chums." Sir George Grey asserted that there was no difference between his Conversation then and when at flikurangi, and if there were complaints on that ground, as he had heard there were, he asked those who nade them stand •up and state them airly and openly. Then Apara (Ngaimaniopoto) called lewi a thief, alluding to his seceding rom the King party. Rewi repelled the idea of being, a hief, and after rapidly referring to his (resent attitude, he denied he supported iir George Grey m consequence of this, le denied that he had been bribed by Jir George Grey, but said he was deermined to uphold him, having Bhaken ands with him now, though an enemy f his once. : , ■ ; . No meeting was held at Te Kopua on aturday. After breakfast, a message ro ught from Tawhiao to the effect that le food was running short and the atives had to go formore, and requesting ir George Grey to remain.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 693, 12 May 1879, Page 2
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