NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1603, 9 April 1879, Page 3

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

[Press Special Wire.] Wellington, April 8. Mr Mackay, Native Commissioner, has proceeded north of Waitara as far as TJrenui, nineteen miles from New Plymouth, for the purpose of interviewing a number of Natives there, said to be strong supporters of Te Whiti. It is said that, within the past few days, Te Whiti prevented some friends of Titokowaru from committing acts of violence. The Waikato chiefs are said to have expressed themselves as follows on the Waimate difficulty. Te Whiti will act for himself and the Waikatos for themselves.” Opiinake, April 8. The Hinemoa landed thirty-seven armed constabulary and a quantity of stores here this morning. A meeting is to be held at Parahaka on the 18th. It is expec ed that this will finally settle the Waimate question. It is rumored that fifty more men are to be sent up here. At present everything is peaceful and undisturbed in this neighborhood. Auckland, April S. A great tangi took place at the Falls, just above Alexandra, on the arrival of Major Te Whooro, whose daughter died lately in Auckland. Tawhiao, with his family, and all the Hikurangi people, 300 in number, came down, and the Ngatimaniapoto. The usual speeches and ceremonies on such occasions were gone through, and two bullocks, a number of pigs, and some

tons of flour, with a large quantity of shark, I eels, and other kinds of dried fish distri- 1 buted to the visitors, Tawhiao made the ■ longest speech ho has been known to make, 1 but so figurative that it waa hard for even many of the Natives to guess his meaning. 1-io spoke of Natives “ not having only to mourn for their child, To Whooro’s daughter, but for the Lnd ( that was being killed, for the cloud over the laud, for the threatened atoms of .lightning and thunder, of fires and earthquakes,” Evidently his Majesty does not look upon things in general as wearing a pleasant aspect. Tawhiao expects that the ensuing meeting at Kopuawillbo much larger than tho last Hikurangi meeting, which was the largest hitherto held