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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 361, 26 March 1866, Page 3

• The Tauranga Natit.es. —Wc dip the followfrom the Southern Cross, of the 21st inst.: —We ore informed by a gentleman having the very best means of information that the news received from Tauranga is ofafavorable nature as concerns the disposition of the natives. They have thought better of what a few weeks ago they seemed to have resolved on—namely, to resist the tailing of that' portion of the land which was confiscated. They have now made up their minds, it is said, to give up the laud peacefully ; but they still wish for an interview with the Governor. William Thomson has sent word, ina nswer to an invitation, that he will not come down to Tauranga to see the Governor. Ho will, he says, meet the Governor only in Waikato. The Opotiki Tragedy.— The Southern Cross, 20th March, has she following:—Of the church and fatal willow tree at Opoliki we have received two excellent 'photographs. They have a mournful interest, which all New Zealand settlers must ever attach to them. Faithful in execution, they will form a prominent position in the history o *f Hew Zealand yet to be written. The photographs are by Mosers Page and Bay ocr.