NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2077, 20 October 1880, Page 3

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

[PBB PBESS ASSOOTATIOH BPEOTAII WIBE.] NEW PLYMOUTH, October 19.

The monthly Parihaka meeting was held on Sunday and attended by about 1000 Nativeß, including women and children. _A large number of Europeans were present, including two ladies, Messrs Parris and Thomson, Government interpreters Carrington, Messenger, and Hardington from Auckland, and Shaw. The Natives, as usual, were very attentive to the Europeans, providing for their wants and showing genuine hospitality. The meeting took place about ten o'clock on Sunday morning in the large square or marai set apart for the meetings. Te Whiti was calm and dignified during the delivery of his address, which lasted for about an hour. He said that the Europeans need not fear on account of the prisoners returning to New Plymouth, for were all the prisoners to be liberated there would be nn fighting or disturbance of any kind. The time for disputing had ended. The Natives would find redress for their wrongs in a manner and at a time they did not expect it. They must remain faithful to him and all their troubles would soon be at an end. Tohu then followed in a speech which contained little or no matter of general interest, but referred chiefly to the conduct of one Native towards another. He advised them to cherish brotherly affection and to remain loyal to Te Whiti and himself. None of the prisoners who were liberated appeared at Parihaka, and the "Taranaki Herald" hears that they have no intention of going there until eent for by Te Whiti. The Natives do not oppose the Constabulary now in any way; they go down to their cultivations regularly, but make no attempt to fence the road or even to fix green boughs in the road. They say that their objeot in going near the camp is to look after their cultivations. The meeting was of short duration, and most of the Natives returned home on Monday, passing through town to-day.

fjPEOM OTTB OWN COBBESPONDENT.I WELLINGTON, October 19,

To-day's official telegram from the Constabulary camp report 8 that the Natives have begun pulling down a wharo now standing on the ground sown with wheat, with the intention of re-orooting it on the road line at the gap in the fence. The constabulary are prepared for this intention, and if it is carried out the building in the firßt instance will probably be simply pulled down, but if any repetition of the attempt to erect it be made the arrest of the Natives, under the West Coast Settlement Act, is regarded as inevitable. The Hon. J. Bryce is expected to return to Wellington on Friday next. Later news from the camp to-day states that the Natives are re-erecting the wbare on another part of the wheat ground and not on the road line as was expected, so they will not be interfered with. The fencers made the usual daily pretended advanoe and retirement. Mr Paris has returned from Parihaka. He reports that Te Whiti has been severely bitten by a dog, and is very ill from the effects. It is generally remarked at camp, j however, that " It cannot possibly make him madder than he is already."