SERIOUS NATIVE ALARM NEAR TARANAKI.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1643, 27 May 1879, Page 3

SERIOUS NATIVE ALARM NEAR TARANAKI.

[By Telegraph.] NEW PLYMOUTH, May 2G. A Native who attended the last Parihaka meeting reports that To Whiti has invited all outside Natives to take shelter with him immediately, as there is going to he a tremendous earthquake, which will destroy all who do not seek his protection. A party of seven or fight Natives went to Mr CaverhilTs lands at Oaknra yesterday afternoon and began ploughing it np. They had four bullocks and ploughs. To Momo, nephew of celebrated Wiremu Kingi, and Tukino were in command of tho party. When the Natives were asked why they were there, they stated that they were under orders from Te Whiti, who told them to go and occupy all the confiscated lands, as the Eu-opeans were now their slaves. The Natives state that all tho confiscated lands in Waitara and other places will bo occupied. 2.30 p.m. A settler from Oaknra has just arrived in town. He says the Natives have warned him to leave the place at once. He says they showed a knife to his children and frightened them. 'J he Native Court has been sitting, but tho meeting is a private one. The Oakura settlers are talking of comingin, and there is an uneasy feeling in town respecting the affair. The fact of the Natives coming on to land which Europeans are occupying looks very serious. At a meeting of magistrates, held to consider what steps should be taken about the Native outrage, they decided to inform the Government of the serious consequences which might ensue if the matter was not properly dealt with.

Two other settlers in the Oakura diatrict have received notice to clear off their land.

Messrs Tait and Klliott, of Waitara, have received notice that their land will bo ploughed to-morrow.

Greenaway, a farmer at Oakura, has just arrived in town for a conveyance to bring in his family. He says that two Maoris called and ordered him to leave, one of them exhibiting a largo knife. Jt is reported in town that Te Whiti is at the bottom of the trouble, he haviug told the Maoris to scatter themselves all over the land. Great anxiety is felt, in town, and the Maoris say they will shortly visit New Plymouth. 5.10 p m.

Tho Natives have ordered William Bayley off his land at Stoney River, and have sent to To Whiti to know whether they shall plough the land of Captain Mace or Mr Looney. It is stated that if they go on the land of either of these settlers the Jaw will be taken into their own hands ; that the ploughs will be seized and tho Natives arrested for trespassing. Matters are looking serious, and the Natives are turning sulky. It is said that the Natives at Waitara and Urenui will plough up tho farms of the settlers.