SPLIT IN THE KING PARTY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XII, Issue 9419, 14 May 1879, Page 2

SPLIT IN THE KING PARTY.

REWI'/MAS¥E?.v.o3' oTHfI SITUATION.

I I [Feom: our Speoiai, Eepoete*.] y ! * "Ll 7 1 ,j AxAandba, -^TajrlS. | j The^TMinisteftflefrKopua this forenoon about 11 o'plock. r The r Kinj<ites were disappointed^a^'thei* "gdin^, r but- 'would njot comply with Sir George Grey's 'demand that they wtfuld consent to his proposals ma^aa^H^kur/ingi la«»fc year.- ] The native*-' had' a I 'meetiai'' after the Ministers lef^which/ seemed' «trft further to widen the b.reaohjbe^w,een;%e;Kingites "and the Ngatimaniapotd, '* THe Ministers a few days ago furni3he"d~Rewi and some o sherr^^JF>fehw,ttibe iwi^arlw^iollth^ 'ltnds which ha<^j f j>een j-e^urned to the vyaikatos, including Te Ngakau, Honana, a id others of the iimnwtiate-xouncillors of Tawhiao, who are the real preservers of hiai'istflftjtie?f. , [,A,t;)theUnl!B6tihg!to-dky liewi proceeded to._read-this list, and it efqatea, 1 (juitfi a,,S9 n^tio»^ \ .pl|owio^i;thafe' tnese here who hadlpravented the Ngatsnftnioppto f fr,om- vje^ling theifi/]aj«d? and;) \who had occupied it, hadihemselves sold dand. Attempts were made to .prevent;: ■^ewi from reading the list^ but in vain. "Rewitold the Kingites that they were very foolish to have neglected, the oners o! the MiniM£' x sS^rnadl»ia'iHb land Vihichhad been r|^BssssMem, and he aiked/ftf ft(kia4 oJ tajmLat their cdnditlon, " Where r 4^now the resting pi ace for your feetT'"' vvhatever may be sjidj 'ot^^risiUti 6£)t^^^ti%;it? hW undoubtedly caused a serious split amongst the King patty,*, Further revelations will soon be made which will show, that rthqse who^ha;?© formedithq majority 1 amongst "the King party that tneV have beeu>;bofjcjQlea r.;',H:-ir .;',H:-i ,1 < I )