Correspondence.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 412, 23 August 1876, Page 3

Correspondence.

THE EOTORUA NATIVE MEETING. .TO THE EDITOB. Sib,— j notice in your issue of the 9th, the oopy of a telegram sent by the Maketu cor« respondent to the Star, where that correspondent states that three hundred natives had left Maketu to attend the meeting at Ohinemutu. Now at that date there may baye been two or three strayaway individuals en route to this place, but the actual supposed party, viz., " the 300," only left Maketu on the 11th or 12th, numbering in all 28 people. It is evident that this being copied into your paper on the 9tb, that the information must have been sent to the Star some little time previous ; and therefore the whole statement, together with the number of people who were sa id to have left, must have been the effects of an imagination never at any time weak, but at that time aided by the undue influence of " eye openers." At the present time the meeting is in full swing, and is going on very quietly. I give you this information for fear that the Makfltu correspondent will have heard that there is great excitement, and if he should happen by any chance to be in an imaginative frame of mind, and multiplies this excitement to the same degree that he multiplied the 28 natives, we are afraid that Major Scannell may think it his duty to bring np his force of A..C. to save the lives of the unfortunate pakehas who happen to sojourn in this vale of tears. — I am, &0., Ukbomantic.