NATIVE AND DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1675, 3 July 1879, Page 3

NATIVE AND DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE.

NEW PLYMOUTH, July 2, The Native ploughmen arrested to-day at Waiaiti are being brought in. They offered no resistance. PATEA, July 2. Kemp returned last night. He says he has prevailed on his Natives, numbering forty, to return, and they are now on the way back. Yesterday the Natives were unable to go on with their work, but no doubt they will as soon as ready. Te Whiti commands them to plough in batches of five, one gang to succeed another as fast as apprehended. The cavalry are under orders to be prepared for any emergency. The Natives have no armed covering party, and are entirely unarmed. OPUNAKE, July 2, All ia quiet, and there Is no sign of the Maoris resuming ploughing. WELLINGTON, July 2.

The Native Minister received a telegram from Major Brown, at Hawora, to the following effect: —Kntene says there is a messenger from To Whiti expected at Waiweranui to give final instructions to Titokowarn, who, he says, has been able to bold his own against Waikato, Taupo, and the pakeha, and is to take charge of the ploughing. He wishes Te Ika and Titokowarn to be token prisoners by the Europeans, but not those who have been imprisoned before, as they lost caste. These latter are to go to Parihaka and place themselves under his protection. The plonghers are to go on ploughing. Even if the Europeans strike them with the sword they are not to resist. Even if they are killed it will bo all right. The ploughing is not merely ploughing of land, but is ploughing up the mana or authority of the Government so as to irritate them to go seek him, Te Whiti, at Parihaka, and when he dies the two races will be united as one. Te Ika ia to take a ploughing party, and if that is stopped, to take party after party, as they are taken prisoners, until ten parties have been taken tea times. Katene says Titokowarn will lead the last ploughing party. At the meeting where these instructions were given, Katsne -tried to advise them against the absurdity of their action, but was told by Te Ika that bis talk was unpalatable, that he wished to see Wellington and Otago, and even the gallows to be hung. He also said the Natives nave been to view the country on the south side of the river to select ground for the plonghers’ operations, and Titokowarn has approved of Messrs Burrows’ and Goodson’s farms atWaiki, as firewood is handy for cooking purposes. Ploughing will probably be resumed to-morrow morning. Titokowarn is opposed to the Natives south of Hawera doing any ploughing in their district, as they have lost caste, either by siding with the Government or by being taken prisoners. No arms are to be taken, and no resistance on any account to be offered. Between three and four hundred women and children assembled to-day to hold a tangi for the people going to plough, as if they were going to their death. Te Wetere has written to the Government, giving a full explanation of his conduct. In the letter he has sent he says he will explain the whole of hie actions, and show he had no intention of removing Europeans.