KAWITIA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 472, 22 April 1867, Page 2

KAWITIA.

DESTRUCTION OF THE WESLEYAN MISSION STATION BY NATIVES. The correspondent of the Daily Southern !Cross, under date 2nd April, writes as follow?; Intelligence has just been received of an outrage which wili, I regret to say, cause considerable uneasiness in this settlement, but will, I trust, call tbc attention of the Government to the state of affairs in t' is part of the province. The natives residing at Kawhia, mostly refugees from Waikato and other places, have broken into and jv-uisacked the Wes’eyan mission elation ;established as Kawhia, the inmates, howjever, escaping; and T am informed by one That the miscreants, after driving awav the cows and sheep (four cows and several jsheep), destroyed all that was not portable |°r, in their iueo, u?e ; ul; and tlii- was ef* fected in spite of and coutrarv to the wi-hos l°f the Kawhia natives, to whom the Rev. I Mr SchnacLouburg, the Wcslevan missionary, has long been a father and & friend. 1 hare also to add the theft from a settler of another horse by tbo same nafives; and really, it some steps are not taken—and that immediately— for our protection, the settlers will be forced to leave the district. L empire c esl la paix ” is a beautiful idea, but it is not truth. The settlers here are living— and they well know it—on a mine which may at any mo cent be*j sprung to their inevitable destruction ; and 1 nothing will secure their safety, and that of the adjoining settlements, but the occupation ol Kawhisv. This must sooner or Uter be effected, and, for the welfare of the province, the sooner it is occupied the better. The natives, I am informed, on very good authority, are fortifying themselves near Orakau *t a pa which they end liio Alangawau Pa, and 1 have no doubt that we shall soon hear of the commencement of hostilities in the Waikato district. A gentleman, just arrived f-om Kawhia, corroborates all that I have written, adding flint the building is completely *n j doors, windows, Ac., being ail destroyed.