THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1601, 7 April 1879, Page 3

THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

[Press Sjjecial Wire.] Wellington. April 5. The Native Minister received to-day from Mr James Mackay a quantity of valuable information as to the cause of the recent trouble en Waimate Plains, and also suggestions a«_to the most advisable mode of procedure by which tko present difficulty may be got over. The memorandum contains a considerable amount of mater which it is thought it would he highly injudicious to publish at the present juncture. Te Whiti, however, was anxious to learn from the Government what their intentions are in regard to setting aside reserves for the Natives, which it is understood Government intends doing, and thus bring the p esent complication to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion. Mr James Mackay and Capt. Blake leave New Plymouth to-day for Haw era, where they will met Mr Sheehan for the purpose of drawing up some proposals to be submitted to the Natives, with a view to the final adjustment of the difficulty.

Opunakb, April 5.

All fear of an outbreak is now at an end, although the Natives are in a state of keen excite ent owing to the dread of being deprived of all the confiscated land. They are still very outspoken and decided in asserting that they will insist upon the full performance of promises made to them on several occasions by the late Sir Donald McLean. The exact nature of thes promises,the fulfilment of which the Natives stickle for so much, is what Mr Mackay went to New Plymouth to make enquiries about, and aso rtain all ?.articulars possible. It is upon this the whole question will turn, and any arrangement with the Nativos will depend. Nothing further can be done until the exact nature of their claims is ascertained.