NATIVE AEFAIRS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2103, 19 November 1880, Page 3

NATIVE AEFAIRS.

|"By Tblbgbaph.] [fhom our own correspondent. j WELLINGTON, November 18. It is not correct, as stated by the " New Zealand Times " that Mr Bryce will return overland from tho Waimato Plains to-morrow. Mr Bryce will remain there for some days yet. Mr Rolleston left Wellington to-day by tho Hawea for New Plymouth to join Mr Bryce, and make a personal inspection of tho Waimate and Parihaka land which has recently been Bold or plaood in the market, or whioh is in the course of survey. Messrs Bryoa and Bolleston will confer on the spot regarding various matters connected with the sale and survey of the Waimate Plains and Parihaka block. They will return to Wellington together about the beginning of the week. Mr Rolleston will spend a few days at Picton and Nelson in passing, and will deal with various departmental matters requiring his attention at thoße places. Lißt night the Government received a telegram to the effect that Mr Parris, who had gone to Parihaka, was not permitted by To Whiti to address tho Natives present, and on his persisting all the Natives were ordered by Te Whiti to retire, a command which was instantly obeyed. Tbis afternoon a later telegram was received, stating, on the authority of trustworthy information from Parihaka, that the Natives there are greatly dissatisfied with Te Whiti for his having prevented Mr Parris from speaking to them. To such a pitch had the discontent attained that Te Whiti thought it prudent to assemble his followers again in the hope that Mr Parris would return, in which case he would have been invited to Bpeak freely. It wbb considered, however, undesirable to repeat the attempt at present, as it was just as well that the Natives should feel the disadvantage under which To Whiti had placed them. Te Whiti, however, stated expressly to Mr Parris that he had given orders for nobody to interfere in any way with the Parihaka survey. Mr Parris endeavored to explain to him that the Government intended in all respects to give effect to tho recommendation of the Royal Commission, but Te Whiti refused to allow him to be heard. Mr McKorrow, Surveyor-General, has received a telegram from Mr Humphries, chief surveyor at Taranaki, reporting that the Parihaka survey proceeds very satisfactorily. It is now regarded as certain that the pulling out of the survey pegs was a mere pieoe of idle mischief, but sharp warnings have been given to the Natives that it must not occur again, or the penalties of the law will be strictly enforced.