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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 258, 9 February 1889, Page 2

Te Kooti wants to revisit Poverty Bay, Poverty Bay doesn’t want Te Kooti, and reSre'aantations have been made to the Native [inister on the subject, Mr Mitchelaou cannot do much to prevent the Maori murderer from visiting Poverty Bay, for so surely as he doss dare to visit the scene of hia now almost forgotten villany bo surely will he get a bullet in him. Te Ksott shot would mean Te Kooti martyred—in the eyes of the Uriweras and 'some "of tho WaikatqS; it would also mean still greater obstacles being placed in the way of settlement in the interior of the North Island. Every European in tho North who has read a detailed account of the Pov. arty Bay massacre would be pleased to hear that Te Kooti’a career had been cut short by a rifle bullet, but the settlement of the interior is too serious a thing to be retarded by the personal voogande ot a settler. Sooner or later the waipird will kill To Kooti, lot the Native Department grasp thia troth and warn the Maori fiend to keep away from the East Coast, His advent thofe—unmolested by Governffisnt—would be a colonial misfortune; smKljlif News,