NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1908, 6 April 1880, Page 2

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

[PSOSI OUB OWN COBEBSPONDBNT.]

WELLINGTON, April 5,

The Government have received a telegram that Mr Parria has returned from Parihaka, whither, as mentioned on Saturday, he had gone to communicate to Te Whiti the nature of the ad interim recommendations made by the Native Commission, and the intention of the Government respecting them. He was received with profuse kindness and marked courtesy by the Maoris, but Te Whiti preserved studious reticence as to his own views, and would not be induced to give any expression of opinion at all. The aspect of the Parihaka Natives is entirely peaceful, nearly all being actively engaged in sowing wheat for next season. There are still a good many Maori visitors from other parts of the colony, but the total number of Natives at Parihaka is said not to exceed a few hundreds. The general impression in the neighbourhood is that Te Whiti is rapidly coming to the end of his prophetic resources, and that unless he can persuade the Commissioners to visit Parihaka and wait on him he feels his mana to be in a very precarious condition. I hear that there is no probability of the Commissioners going to Parihaka, as their doing so might have a bad effect. The only way they could have done it was to have at once proposed to hold a sitting there, and have invited Te Whiti to attend, but had he refused, more harm than good would have resulted.