WANGANUI.
Our (Taranaki Herald) correspondent, writing on the 27th, says:—“ The natives are quiet. Since the fight at Moutoa, the friendly natives have determined upon selling the land right and left. They intend to oifer to Dr. Featherston on his arrival the whole of the land on either side of the river, extending on the town side about thirty miles in a straight line by about twenty miles across from the Wanganui to Waitotara, and on the other side the Morimotu plains, extending from the present border to within a few miles of Tongariro and across to Rangitikei, about fifty miles square. What a pity your Ngatiawa do not do something of the kind. I fear you will never get the Waitara, for it will never be confiscated. By a dodge the Ngatiruanuis have made over all the.land from Patea to Waitotara to the Government natives; the latter will, of course, hold it for them.”
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 187, 12 August 1864, Page 3
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155WANGANUI. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 187, 12 August 1864, Page 3
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