Native News.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Friday. The Maoris who interviewed Mr Ballance yesterday all wore the blue ribbon. Ropiha said the document advocating the unity of the races had been signed by 12,700 natives of the North Island, 11,000 of whom were blue ribbonists, after Ropiha came back from England he went about spreading the Temperance propaganda among the Maoris, as well as his anti-land-selling principles. His influence with the Wairarapa natives was considerable, and it is said that on one occasion when the Native Minister was going to Woodville he found the King's flag flying at Tahoraite where Ropiha then happened to be
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1650, 5 March 1886, Page 4
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105Native News. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1650, 5 March 1886, Page 4
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