TELEGRAPHIC.
NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [PEE PEESB AGENCY.] New Plymouth, October 4. The “Taranaki Herald” says, with reference to the Maori scare reported in yesterday’s issue, we are informed that two men who came into Now Plymouth from Hawera last night say that when they were at the Patea River they saw the natives, who were armed with guns and tomahawks. They were reported to have stopped Stewart and the boy. Upon entering into conversation with the natives the whitemen learned that they were in search of Hiroki, The natives then tied up their horses and proceeded up the river. The two white men subsequently saw Stewart, and from what they learned it appears that the whole affair was a misunderstanding arising from Stewart’s ignorance of the Maori language. He had taken a friendly warning to beware of Hiroki to be words of hostility. ______
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1446, 4 October 1878, Page 2
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