OHINEMURI.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 642, 1 February 1872, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

FURTHER BURNING OF TELE-

GRAPH POSTS,

THE CONNECTION OP THE LINE WITH KA.TI

KATI DESTROYED.

(fbom otje special cobbespondent.) January 30By overland messenger this morning, I learn that the telegraph at Parakawai, which was just being finished, and which would have formed a junction between Waihi and the line at Kati Kati, has been again cut by the Maories who are opposed to the line being carried through. It will be recollected that a report of a similar description was published a few days since, and was then denied by the Government. It was, however, quite true that one post was at that time destroyed, and it is quite true that all the posts along the disputed part of the line have been burnt down by the amicable natives, who are so well disposed, while they are being fed and liquored by the Government, or any of its friends; and who are so religiously inclined to take all that the Pakeha can be cajoled in giving. We are quiet in all these borders, there is lierally but one dozen of Maoris in all these parts. The potato crop will be very little short of an entire failure this season. Te Hira, JVLere .Kuru, To Moanuanui, Mere Letia, and all the other notables are at the fishing ground near Shortland.