The Observer. Saturday, October 6th, 1883. TE WHITI AND THE MISSIONARIES.
The Parihaka Prophet's bete aoir is a missionary. He declares that, lie is unable to discern any appreciable difference between a missionary and & land-grabber. Many other Maoris have said the 3ame tiling, and wilh a good show of reason. Te Wlnfci carries his antipathy so far as to prohibit any missionary from preaching, to his people*. Nothing daunted, however, a venerable gentleman dropped in upon him the other day and proposed, to shed a 'little Grospel light on the benighted fanatics of Parihaka. The Prophet's reply ?"•—-'-' characteristic. He said : "Take your bayonets /j&kn my breast (i.e., the Constabulary) before yol^onie to talk of peace and love." To Whiliis evidmtly not a believer in the saying uF th^ Ame:rVn humourist, that " peace, to make it stick at all, ntost be druv in by> bagonets."
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 160, 6 October 1883, Page 2
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