DISGUST OF THE HAWERA SETTLERS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1694, 25 July 1879, Page 3

DISGUST OF THE HAWERA SETTLERS.

[By Teiesbapii.] HAWEBA, July 24. At a largely attended public meeting held last night, it was resolved that this meeting views with feelings of strong disapproval and intense alarm the conduct of the Grey administration of affairs generally, and of the Native difficulty in particular, the management of the settlement of Wuimato Plains having imperilled tho safety of the lives and property of the whole of the settlers, and threatening the district with complete ruin. Believing the Government have no scheme to propose and that they are trifling with the settlers, we earnestly pray that this incomplete Government may be dismissed and replaced by more able and earnest men. It was also resolved that this meeting repudiates any expression of facta said to have been conveyed to Sir G. Grey by a deputation, and hereby records its feelings of contempt of the Kent telegram j and with regard to Mr Gisborne’s statement that the whole question could be settled in the Law Courts, it is tho opinion of this meeting that the question of title should not be gone into, or any negotiations whatever entered into with the Natives of this coast, until the murderer Hiroki and his protectors are given up to justice.”