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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 115, 8 October 1873, Page 3

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(■FHOM OTTB OWN 'COKTJUSPOND ENT ) IvOTOKEA, October G. Mr. Hopkins Clarke met several influential chiefs of Ngutikaue tbe other day, when they had a torero ” respecting school, telegraph station, and matters of local interest. The natives complained that, although they had repeatedly applied to Government for a school at Ohineinutu for the Eotorua district, and had given grants of lands both for that purpose and the telegraph station, they could get no satisfactory reply. Air Clarke, as usual, managed to leave them in a better humour than he found them. We are glad to welcome Captain Hair back to our district after his visit to the sister colony. Captain Mair is one of the few Government odicers whose absence would be fell by either natives or Europeans in tins district-. The native: are putting in plenty of potatoes this year. They do not anticipate any farther trouble, unless it is caused by the action of some notorious Government oilicials or pakeha suimporters of the King. Madame Rumour has got it about, that a certain notorious person, well-known as a supporter of the King movement when mot ey was being-paid to natives on account of land, not a hundred miles from Matato, told thorn that this was the last payment that would be made on account of native lands, as the Government only wante I foothold - tor tbe first million (?) of emigrants, and that then tbe cry would be, “ .Still they come,” until the natives were crowded out of the Korth Island altogether. Jt is understood that the natives on hearing this cried, “ The pakeha ! the pakeha! why end not you tell us word., the pakoha was übout, J ’

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