NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1861, 10 February 1880, Page 3

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

[By Telegraph.] [FROM OPS OWN CORRESPONDENT,] WELLINGTON, February 9. Later intelligence received by the Government to-day re the Murimotu affair, proves that the first report had been greatly exaggerated. Topia and Kenata were not even on the spot at all, but had gone down to Otaki on church business. Some high words passed between some of their men and Major Kemp, but nothing at all serious. The whole affair was a mere storm in a teapot. To-day’s telegrams from Waimata Plains and neighborhood are all favorable. Everything appears to be proceeding satisfactorily. The Natives seem to regard the commission with growing favor. [press association.] HAWERA, February 9. Sir Dillon Bell, one of the members of the Royal Commission, is in Hawera. The old Native Office is being prepared for the sittings of the Commission. A Native named Kurukara, who was on Mr Finnerty’s survey party, was discovered in the Patea River yesterday. He was swimming in company with a European named Thof. Whatie, down the river, in order to roach their camp, which was at the foot of a gorge, and had arrived in sight of the camp when he disappeared from his comrade’s sight. Whatie walked many miles into Hawera without clothes to bring the news.