NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2334, 26 September 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[FBB PKEBS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH, September 26. Native NewsSeveral settlers, who were living near Pungarehu on the newly-acquired land are coming into town. The Native Minister, Oolonel Roberts, and Mr Parris, with a guard of eight men, went yesterday morning to inspect the fences and to ascertain the present disposition of the Natives and the number that may be expected to resist the Constabulary. If the attitude of the Natives is not so determined as reported, he intends that the Constabulary shall remove the fences. This morning a force went out, but no news has reached here as to what has been done. On the way to Pungarehu the Native Minister saw Mr Messenger (a good Maori scholar, and who was at Parihaka), and questioned him respecting the speech published in the papers by tha Press Association. Mr Messenger said it was a fair translation, and in no way exaggerated. OPUNAKE, September 26. Major Stapp is to-day enrolling the settlers at Mania for the Volunteer corps. The Native Minister is now at Pungarehu. He endorses the action of settlers in preparing for contingencies. At present the Natives are passive, and appear discomfited at the aotion of the Europeans. DUNEDIN, September 26. ElectoralDr. Smith is a candidate for Clutha. The Clayton Bankruptcy Case.

The Supreme Court in bankruptoy has been occupied all day with Mr Clayton's case. INVBBOABGILL, September 26. Crime-

A young man named John Gobbe was committed for trial at the Supreme Court for taking a trunk containing articles worth £SO, the proporty of Mr K. G. Bichelder, the manager of the Minstrels. The trunk was taken from the Queen's Theatre, Dunedin, in November last.

Body Found

The body of a man named Brown was :ound on Saturday in the New river.