TITOKAWARU ON THE NATIVE QUESTION.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2680, 8 November 1882, Page 3

TITOKAWARU ON THE NATIVE QUESTION.

[press association telegram.] HAWERA, November 8,

The occasion of Tape Te Waero visiting Akawaro to present Titokawaru with a canoe, was utilised by the latter chief for the purpose of addressing a few words of instruction and admonition to his tribe. The Natives had been informed of the intention of the Government to lease the remaining portion of the continuous reserves, and doubtless there were many who raised a murmur at Titokawaru, who told the people that they were in no'way to resist whatever Government choose to do ; and although the survey lines were taken through their standing crops, and encroached upon their dwelling-places, they were to be quiescent. The next subject upon which he addressed them was the stock running on the reserves. He told them, to be very careful bow they caught and sold horses, and in catching a horse to make perfectly sure that the beast was their own, and although it might be unbranded they must recollect that it might probably be the, property of their pakeha neighbours; consequently, great care must be used for that, and though they had suffered loss through their horses being stolen by the European, they must not retaliate in kind. The address was a general recommendation for sill to remain quiet and orderly; and, in conclusion, rebuked those among his people who, to make themselves big in tbe eyes of their European neighbours, were in the habit of boasting that they were owners of such and such a piece of land.