WANGANUI.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 86, 19 April 1870, Page 2

WANGANUI.

The Chronicle of the 16th has the following : "The Independent says that the settlers of the Patea, and he might have added of the Wairoa, do not join in the cry which has been got up by those'in the Waitotara. This is not quite correct, they have all joined in the cry, but the cry of those referred to has been mado humbly and with hated brealh, and the reason is very obvious. These settlers are nearly all in Government pay and under mi'itarv rule, and must comport themselves accordingly. But the Government never made a greater mistake than to suppose that they acquiesce, in even the slightest degree, in the proposed

ydZCoi the natives. We believe, indeed, Iff the dissatisfaction of the Patea settlers is yen greater than those of the WaitotaraZv have additional cause. They complain T f L W av in which affairs generally are administered by Major Noake: they complain f the preposterous delay of Government in making them the promised advances o* money on their land ; and now this native utter comes as a culmination to the whole. The excitement may calm down, as our cOntpniDorary supposes it will, but we would not Jlvise the Government to trust to such a Jenkins of the Wairoa Rifles wa3 riding some days ago between Kakaramea and Patea he met with an accident in a virions way. It came on to rain, and to save £s from a ducking, he got off and took nelter in a flax bush, holding his horse by the bridle. Before he could e > deed, before he was really aware of the move Zi "the horse turned round and kicked him inflicting severe injury on his face, and biealin__ some of his teeth. . ~ "Many of the friendly natives, it is well knowm suffered as much as their European nSours from Tito Kowaru's aggressions. 3 0 S Wellington Independent-* piece which will be new to the people hereabout- We can assure our contemporary that losses oi the natives are not so well known as ho assumes-indeed, not to put too fine a point upon it, they are not known at 11 Will he kindly toll us what Waitotara Natives lost anything, and how much.— Chronicle.