HAWERA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3537, 8 November 1882, Page 3

HAWERA.

November 8

Mr T. M'Fog, who has been employed by the Public Works Department to Act as engineer to the Middle Island Railway Commission, left Hawera this morning for Wellington.

The occasion of Tapa Te Waeao visiting Okaiwa to present Titokowaru with a canoe was utilised by the latter chief for the purpose of addressing a few words of instruction and admonition to his tribe. The natives had been informed of the intentions of the Government to lease the remaining portion of the continuous reserve, and doubtless there were many who raised a murmur at the prospect. Titokowaru told the people that they were not to resist, whatever the Government chose to do ; that, although the survey lines were taken through their standing crops, and encroached upon their dwelling places, they were to be quiescent. The next subject upon which he addressed them was the stock running on the reserves. He told them to be very careful how they caught and sold horses, and in catching a horse to make perfectly sure that the beast was their own, and although it might be unbranded they must recollect that it might probably be the property of their pakeba neighbors, and consequently great care must be used for that, and though they had suffered loss through their horses having been stolen by Europeans they must not retaliate. The address was a general recommendation for all to remain quiet and orderly, and in conclusion Titokowaru rebuked those amoDg his people who, to make themselves big in the eyes of their European neighbors, were in the habit of boasting that they were the owners of such aud such a piece of land.