TITO KOWARU AGAIN.

Evening Star, Issue 4046, 14 February 1876, Page 3

TITO KOWARU AGAIN.

One scarcely hears anything now of the once famed rebel chief Tito Kowaru, whose exploits in 1869 on the West Coast made his name a 1 household word throughout the Colony. Yet Tito is still alive and in the flesh, , and Colonel .M‘Donnell recently received a letter from him. He is living a few miles north of the Waingongoro—which is sixty miles north of Wanganui—at a ama.ll settlement.near the edge of the bush. Last November Coloner McDonnell received an invitation from Tito’s people to come np and visit them,' Which he did, but the chief was absent at the time. The confiscated lands are in course of occupation and settlement right up from the Patea River to the Waingongoro, but the natives decline to recognise the confiscation any further North than.the latter; although the, original proclamation included the district between Waingongoro and Waitara, and also the district of Ngatiawa Coast, North of Waitara. At present the Government do not attempt to meddle with the land north of the Waingongoro river, and Titokowam rigidly confines ' himself to that side. He has about fifty people with him at present, and evidently dislikes being seen by strangers. His letter to Colonel M‘Donnell is somewhat enigmatical, but his present attitude, though sulky,' is submissive. The fact is noteworthy that one of Titokowaru’s people—the ringleader in the murders, of Cahill, Squires, and Clark—is at present in the pay of the Government. He receive* L6O a year, and acts as a sort of guard to prevent the horses and cattle of the settles from crossing the Wanganui River. ‘Post.’