Tha Hauhaus at Waihou.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 345, 31 August 1889, Page 3

Tha Hauhaus at Waihou.

fs.Z. HSBILD COBBOWOZDZST.] Txs Europeans in the vicinity of these jhnatios are by no means easy in their minds. This vague nneasiness is not allayed by recent events,' The prophetess, Bsmona Pangsri, prophesied that Christ wonld come on Sunday, 18th August, and as He did not come some of the Hanhaus said he was prevented from coming by the wickedness of the surrounding Europeans, Remona assures them that He

gifi oome without’fail next Sunday; and the Europeans are apprehensive lest the natives iboutd take steps to remove such supposed barriers to Christ's second coming, as a few defenceless famllas are. There are three families very close to the Hsuhau camp, and two at these are within a few hundred yards of it. These families have all availab’o firearms of every description, loaded apd capped, ?aady at hand every night in case of emerpnsy.'and I do nut think they are ever Milfijaffug th« gravity of the situation, for it is Utterly impossible to predict what whim may come into the {heads of these mad people (I tin the term mad iu its stricter, sente). It is a great pity that the place is not in tele. graphic eommunicaticn with the rest of the colony, so that prompt ’stepa could be taken I 8 SIIS P * B V goto* lawlessness bn their part J“fP?y t ? rr SSGoyepn wh«n tb t sro ta%de hiqjselJ papbpatelyacguainted wi‘b WS B&ture of lhe ground round about their camp, in readiness for possible military operations against them. This wf’ • very wise precaution, in view of the stubborn resistance these’ same Hauhaus formerly offered to their arrest, I hope the present Government will ha more prompt ;h»n Um last one was io attesting them on the first sighs of lawlessness, if they do not order their examination by two doctors, with a view to read them to the Avondale Asylum. This latter foqrss would be far preferable to the other one, for imprisonment is no punishefat td them. They say they were better fed d better clothed than they were at homa, god the work was nothing to them. TWO Mormon elders were bolding services with' them all last week with a view to convert them to Mormonism, The Hauhaus at first seemed inclined to listen to them when they heard they had prophets in the Mormom Church, but the prophetess fearing her prestige would be small in the Salt Lake disput: desided not to approve of their teaching, Mid alter ‘.he Mormons left she made all who W*? Inolfßed to !d'>tu,oms.-u to eat RWSSK* "*”****•