WANGANUI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 77, 18 December 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

WANGANUI.

The Natives. —We understand that a party of Waikatos, including perhaps the King, is expected in this neighbourhood about the end of this month. Their object is to advise their countrymen as to their behaviour among themselves and towards the Government Maories and Whites.— Chronicle, Dec, 11. A rather a serious disturbance took place on Monday the Ist inst., at Jerusalem, a pall about

sixty miles up the river, at the extremity of the Wanganui Native Resident Magistrate’s District. On that day, a party of King’s policemen came to Jerusalem and laid hold of a Government Maori whom they accused of crim. con. with a King Maori’s wife. Ilis sister was helping to resist her brothers capture, and was pitched against a fence, coming against it with such violence as to have one of her ribs broken'and to 'bo otherwise seriously injured, so as now to lie in a dangerous state. A boy was thrown some„distance and considerably t hurt. The natives in the pah were about to join the fray, but the chief man forbad them saying “ Let the wrong not be on our part, but on theirs.” The man was, taken* a way, and brought before the King’s runanga, by which he wasjiued £2 10s. which some of his King relatives paidj for him. This will be a case for Mr. White to take up when he returns from Auckland. The Government natives say that if anything of the kind occurs again, the attempt will be forcibly resisted. The great difficulty in carrying out the Governor’s institutions is in dealing with such acts of violence The Government Natives must be protected ; and how can they be so without endangering a general collision ? — lbid. Our Klocks. —We understand that'fthero are now 50,087 sheep in this district distributed as follows: —in Manawatu 4,003; in Rangitikei 13,511; in Turakina7,o7o ; between the W angaehu and the Wanganui 13,28 G ; and on the right side of the Wanganui 20,521. The wool may amount to 820 bales, the value of which here should be about £15,000. — Ibid. It will be seen by a letter elsewhere, that a serious disease has appeared in Rangitikei. We are informed that in the end of last week not less than 15 p.c. of Mr. Jordan’s flock were affected by the disease, so rapidly had it spread. It is believed that the disease was introduced by some sheep brought from the Ahuriri about six months ago, and it washlnm supposed to have been caused by fatigue. r lhe disease is so serious as to call for immediate measures being taken by the Government to prevent its spread.— lbid.