NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1857, 5 February 1880, Page 2

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

[By Telegraph.] [prom: oitb own correspondent.] WELLINGTON, February 4. No telegrams have been received to-day from Mr Bryce, and the Government are not in receipt of any fresh intelligence from Waimate Plains or that neighborhood. Private telegrams report that all is going on well and the Natives are in good humor, disposed to be conciliatory towards Europeans, offering the constabulary presents of fruit, vegetables, fresh meat, ic. Mr Bryce is reported to have arrived at Hawera to-day, and will probably join the constabulary on the Plains to-morrow.

Road making on the Plains is progressing well, and the formation of the road is expected to be completed from Waingongoro river as far as Kaipipi by next Tuesday. The Premier returned from tbe South today by the Taiaroa, with Sir Dillon Bell. They did not arrive until half-past two this afternoon, but a Cabinet meeting was immediately held, also an Executive Council. At Government House a big conference took place between the Ministers now in Wellington (Mr Hall and Major Atkinson) and the two European members of the Native Commission. After careful consideration, it was decided not to fill up the vacant Native Oommissionership for a few days. The European Commissioners, however, quite approve of the Maori proposed by the Government, whose name is not disclosed as yet. Meanwhile bath European Commissioners will proceed at once to Hawera, Sir Wm. Fox starting to-morrow morning by coach at four, and Sir Dillon Bell in the afternoon. They will commence making all necessary preliminary arrangements preparatory to the actual sitting of the Commission, with a view of clearing the ground and saving as much time as possible when the regular sittings begin. The place of these has to be settled, and the attendance of Native claimants and witnesses secured as far as practicable.