NATIVE MATTERS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 668, 29 March 1869, Page 2

NATIVE MATTERS.

The Colonial Government gun.JH St. Kilda, Captain-Fox, avriveM Wellington harbor on Friday mj| ing last, from Opotiki,with "HoH and 64 Ngatiporous from; the iB Coast.--They have gone to -Fates, X if necessary, will be sent: to tB naki. Hotene is indignant atTJIH conduct in persuading his J| to break faith with the GovernuH after they had entered into a rc-uK engagement to serve in the CoJB biliary for a specified time. Colonel Whitm ore was in hot p|B suit of Titokowaru at the latest daH from the Front, and it was thcml that the rebels were making M Waitara by the beach at the backl Mount Egmont. Ho tone's \M would probably be still in timeH render material assistance to ColoS Whitmore in overtaking the fyfl When the St. Kilda left OpoJj there were 300 Europeans andH tivesunder arras there, and Maj Mair was following up Te Kooti. Nothing further is known of] ICooti's movements, but informatii may be hourly expected. There a no grounds for supposing that he so near our frontier as to occasit alarm, and he is probably makit for the Uriwera country. The Government has offered at ward of £2OO (two hundred pound foi the capture of Te Waru, and £\ (ten pounds) each for the captm of any of the male adults of his gai who are threatening an attack o Wairoa. It is probabl* that the miscreants will fall into the ham of the Wairoa natives before long, The Government are wanting me of good character for the Armi Constabulary. It will be seen th the Government are in earnest, u using means in its power t suppress the rebellion, — applyii those means at all such points as at most threatened, and from which, i is believed by those who are in position to judge, the rebels must I cleared before other operations b commenced. It cannot—neither! it desirable that it should—havei number of little affairs going o: at the same time so long as it i possible to avoid it. If ever the Government needed aid, both morally and physicaUyJi is now ; and all parties would do well to forego their political differen ces, at all events for a time, and lib good men and true give all the help ihey can to those who are at m helm for the time being.