NEW PLYMOUTH.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3195, 24 September 1881, Page 3

NEW PLYMOUTH.

September 24

A deputation waited last night on the Native Minister to represent to him the state of the district. Mr Rolleston assured the deputation that the Government were fully alive to their responsibility, and would provide for the protection of life and property, and that should there be anything in the aspect of affairs calculated to raise immediate alarm, ample notice would be given.

The Native Minister, Colonel Roberts, and Mr Parris, were expected to arrive at Pungarehu at noon to-day. They will riot visit Parihaka. The natives come down every rnoruing as usual to fence, and it is probable the Native Minister will have an opportunity of watching the proceedings.

Te Wbiti gave a strong lecture to scrae of his impulsive young men the other evening. They were preparing a surprise on the camp, and Te Whiti,

hearing of it, sent for theni, and addressed them aa follows:—"If you , kill five pakehas they get ten to fill their place; if five Maoris are killed there are none to fill their place. The Maoris are hemmed in on every side by the Europeans, and if you fight and kill all the men in the camp hundreds of Europeans will come and take their place. The result is that you will be killed, and the Pakeha will have all the land." " The young men were influenced by Te Whiti's words, and did not make the raid they intended. Last evening Te Wetere, of Mokau, had an interview with the Native Minister with reference to the opening up of the Mokau block, and the sitting of the Lands Court in that district.