TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 153, 18 December 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

TARANAKI.

The Natives. —Great care should be observed now in leaving the Town or Blockhouses. Little is known of the whereabouts of the numerous natives reported to be in near neighborhood. On Tuesday evening, Mr. Clare, jun., was again shot at, at Bell Block, whilst in the act of driving his bullocks into a grass field, by two natives, whom he distinctly saw; one piece went off, and the other missed fire, and he ran towards the Blockhouse at the best of his speed, onoriiy after a body of from 10 to natives were seen across the stream by the Wesleyan Chapel, but a party going after them they decamped, and on rising the hill two only were seen by Mr. Greenway, who was riding in advance, and he fired two shots at them from his revolver at 150 yards, and might have rode them down, but fur the fear°of placing himself between them and the militia party following. Nor is it impossible that the distribution of the rebellion and confiscation proclamation amongst them may lead to irritation and aggression, so that, as we have said before, great precaution should be exercised. The translation of the part of the proclamation relating to confiscation is as follows: “A Law about Land. This is it—that if natives or tribes, or if a majority of either natives or tribes, join in the war, the Governor will take land of those natives or tribes without payment, and will put Europeans in occupation of the same and settle them upon it. “ This law is only for those who join in the evil work now being carried on. Those who remain quiet and do not join in this evil work, their land will not be interfered with by the Governor/' —Taranaki News, Dec. 3.