NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2287, 1 August 1881, Page 3

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

[PBBBS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] AUCKLAND. July 30, A Hokianga telegram says: —“It is reported here that tho Natives are fighting over a piece of laud half-way between Kaikohi and Taheki, and shots have been exchanged, though it is not yet known with what result, Mr Von Sturmer and Constable Ooughlan have loft for the scene of the quarrel. These Natives are the same who took part in tho fight at Akato in December, 1879, when four lives were lost. They are the most lawless Native* in the district. Later. Mr Von Sturmer, the Magistrate, has returned from the scene of the row between the Native tribes near Hokianga, The dispute commenced over a cultivation. They erected pahs, ana one man received a flesh wound in the thigh. The dispute is now settled, and the Natives have returned to their homee, after agreeing to hand the land over to MrJVon Sturmer and Hore Mohi Tawhia. Tho wounded Native intends bringing bis case into Court. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 30. Tho Natives have again commenced to obstruct tho roads near Parihaka. Yesterday morning the men constructing the bridge on the road between Pungarehu and Ratiotu were stopped by Natives, who had assembled in groat numbers, and a messenger was at once despatched to Pungarehu, and the constabulary were ordered to proceed to the spot to protect the workmen. The Natives refused to leave after the Constabulary arrived. Mr Parris and Major Tuke were sent for, and they took their departure for the camp this morning. The reason that the Natives have obstructed the work is, they say, because the Government are encroaching upon their land.