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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Rare Volume

(F.) Page 13. — Resolutions of the Native Conference

(F.) Page 13.

Resolutions of the Native Conference.

The evidence in the text has reference only to the Ngatiawa and the tribes in the neighbourhood of Taranaki, whose local knowledge qualifies them to become witnesses in the case. It may be answered that the third resolution of the chiefs at the native conference at Kohimarama, was:—"That this conference having heard explained the circumstances which led to the war at Taranaki, is of opinion that the Governor was justified in the course taken by him; that William King Te Rangitake himself provoked the quarrel, and that the proceedings of the latter are wholly indefensible." (New Zealander, Sept. 1).

It must, however, be borne in mind that the members of this conference were selected for their known friendship to the Government; that considerable excitement prevailed respecting this resolution, which, after all, is very vague and general, and which was not assented to till the next morning; that three of the chiefs recorded their dissent from it; and that the apprehension almost universally expressed as to a war of races indicates that the general sympathies of the natives are felt to be with Wiremu Kingi.