NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1947, 21 May 1880, Page 3

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

WELLINGTON, May 20. The Hon. Mr Bryce, Native Minister, has received a telegram to-day from Mr Parris, confirming the previous report as to the Parihaka meeting, and stating that Te Whiti has issued strict orders that the Natives are to cease building whares on the disputed ground, and are not to begin any more. This is a practical admission of the failure of his attempt to’ draw off the Constabulary from road making. He did not allude at all to the imaginary moving invented by a newspaper correspondent, and the statement in a so-called report of the meeting that he did allude to it is wholly unfounded. Nor did he admit having said the roads would not meet. On the contrary, as I telegraphed yesterday, he distinctly denied saying anything of the The telegraphic report regarding the Murimotu affair is equally imaginary. Remp is not the leading chief of _the_Wanganui tribe, being under Mete K ngi. He did not act in the interests of his people, but in direct opposition to their interests and wishes, and the instructions of his superior chief Eingi. His action had nothing whatever to do with any questions at issue regarding the Btudhohne Company and the land shares, but was a mere attempt to extend his mana in a direction he had no right to.