NORTHERN NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2006, 9 October 1869, Page 2

NORTHERN NEWS.

AUCKLAND. By the Lord Ashley, we have received our usual files of paper from this province up to the 30th inst. Several meetings had been held by the candidates for the Superiutendency, and Auckland was in the heat of a contested election. THE MAORI KINO. A telegram from the Alexandra correspondent of the J1 urald states that Tawhiao reached Hautara yesterday on his return from Kawhia to Te Kooti. A large meeting is to take place next week to arrange about taking revenge upon Te Kooti for the late murder of a Ngah Apakura native near Taupo. Te Kooti’s force numbers about three hundred men. Eewi is still near Taupo with Te Kooti. TE KOOTI. The Southern Cross, of the 2oth ultimo, says :— Tp Kooti, it appears, has had the misfortune to murder fqur King natives, because they would not join his forces, and great indignation is expressed thereat at Tawhiao’s head quarters, so much so that the arch-rebel is to be killed as utu if ho should again put in an appearance at Tokangamutu. TARANAKI. The Herald says that it is pleasing to notice the difference in the disposition of the Maoris on the cua*t between New Plymoath and Patea at the present time, compared with their behaviour three years ago. Undoubtedly the tide has turned, and it is now that a great and lasting good may be done by the administration of government to those people, and by the introduction in their own locality of industries which will give them remunerative employment. The country is unsurpassed in the production of flax, and fop grazing purposes. In fact, it seems as if Nature in her wise discretion had placed the flax beside the power that was to work it into an article serviceable for the many wants of man. A company has already opened negotiations with the Natives for the purpose of manufacturing the flax on a part of their land, and will in a short time commence a the good of which it is scarcely possible dt the present to see the end of. not only to the shareholders, but to the Maoris and country in general. The present growth of flax in the district, it is estimated, would take a population of from five to seven thousand persons three years to work up. '