Native Affairs at Parihaka
* FRIENDLY ATTITUDE OF THB ' NATIVES. MR BALLANCE CORDIALLY RECEIVED. [PES VNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] Opunakb, This Day. Mr Ballance paid a visit to Parihaka yesterday, and saw all the principal people residing there, including Te Whiti and Tohu. Te Whiti, who was in his house, was reticent and mysterious at first, and complained that the Native Minister had not visited him when passing through on a previous occasion. He, however, soon became friendly. Tohu received the Ministerial party, and welcomed them with great cordiality, and afterwards presided at a dinner, at which the Native Minister was invited. The attitude of all the natives of the village was most friendly, and the Native Minister left convinced of the gross exaggeration of the reports regarding them. Inspector Pardy, accompanied by a mounted constable, arrived at Pungarehu this morning to enquire into some cases of petty theft. It is intended to give Inspector Pardy full charge of the Taranaki provincial j district, Inspector James retaining! Wanganui. The natives complain of j the excessive charges made by the j Public Trust Office, and many of them decline to take their rents in conse- 1 quence. Mr JJallance Jias promised to bring the matter under the : notice of the Goyeriiment on his return to
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 143, 19 May 1885, Page 2
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