NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2018, 12 August 1880, Page 3

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

[Br Tbhsgbaeh.] [fbosi oub own cobbbbeondbnt/J WELLINGTON, August 11. There is no fresh news of any importance regarding Native affairs, but the " Times " correspondent telegraphs as follows from Opunake to-day:—"For the last month the Natives, men, women, and children, between here and Waitara, have been wending their way to Parihaka, and now all the Maori settlements between here and there are almost deserted, only very aged being left behind. This is literally true as regards the settlements this side of the Waingongoro. About thirty of Titokowaru's followers went there two days ago. Honi Bahama's wife and family have been there for the last month. Faith in the prophet seems as strong, if not stronger, than ever. Most of the men, many of whom have hitherto expressed contempt for Te Whiti, are not only willing but anxious to join the fencers and be sent to gaol, and are soliciting Te Whiti and Tohu to be told off for the work. If matters go on much longer as at present the result must be very disastrous to the Natives, who are in the meantime employed on cultivations and making provision for future food supplies. The " Chronicle" says that the recommendations in the third report of the West Coast Commissioners meet with the cordial approval of Sir George Grey, and the party who act under his leadership. It is understood that the Bill which is to give effect to the proposals is based entirely upon the recommendations of the third report, and has been prepared by the Commission, those gentlemen being considered best able to embody their own ideas in statutory form. All real friends of the Natives are anxious that the recommendations of the Commissioners shall be carried out as a whole, and not by piecameal. The West Coast Bill, dealing with Native affairs generally on the West Coast and the lands referred to in the report of the commission, will be taken up on Friday, but the Bill is not yet out of the hands of the printer. p?EB PBEBS ASSOCIATION SFBCIAIi WIBB."I NEW PLYMOUTH, August 11. The Taranaki "Herald's" correspondent at TXrunui writes —"Moat of our Native friends started for Parihaka yesterday (Tuesday). I hear that Te Whiti sent word for them to hurry up. The Natives inform me that fencing is to be continued until only three men are left at Parihaka, namely Te Whiti, Tohu, and Hiroki. On hearing of the death of the Native prisoner at Dunedin named Watson, there being two of that name, the Natives held a tangi over tho wrong man. The Natives are angry at the Government not informing them when a relation dies. Nearly all the head men amongst the Natives who came from the Chatham Islands twelve years ago to settle at Urunui are dead or in prison."