MAORI NEWS.
News from Auckland regarding the position of Te Kooti is not satisfactory. By the arrangements which were made with the friendly Maoris, that rebel and his forces should have been accounted for by this time, but now we are informed that although professedly hemmed in, he has been permitted to slip away, while at the same time it is asserted that the King natives did not act honestly towards Mr. M'Lean ; and that while pretending to a friendliness to us, and an antagonism to Te Kooti, the King really felt neither of these sentiments. Such is the story; but there are conflicting statements current among the King natives themselves, and probably full particulars will shortly be obtained by Mr. M'Lean, who has, as we read the Auckland papers, again gone to the King district. It is unfortunate that at such a juncture the few troops in the Colony should be removed, as they now are being; but it ia better that they should go at once than that we should be led to trust on such a broken reed, and be subjected to panics that their often threatened removal engenders.
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Colonist, Volume XIII, Issue 1285, 18 January 1870, Page 5
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192MAORI NEWS. Colonist, Volume XIII, Issue 1285, 18 January 1870, Page 5
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