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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 23, 24 June 1867, Page 147

■ Reported Hostilities at tub Bay of Ts lands.—The New Zealand Herald, -j un®’ B. regrets to learn that a Land dispute between certain natives, to the westward of tho Waiinate- Block his actually led to’ open hostilities between tho two parties.' That journal says:— s * The info”motion w« Slave receired is meagre, bur, as. far as .it ’ goes, reliable. It a. -pears that a parly bf' twelve natives built a whare upon land ’ which they either supposed to beor claimed ' as their own, a id time having done so they * were forcibly ejected by & party of some fifty or .sixty natives, .who'differed in opi.iio;i with them as to the ownership of tlia and.' The weaker party made' a’ run of it,’ ; and were fired upon by the ejectors, f appiiy f without -effect. Tuesday la.-t,' the d.sy ou - ATiieli our.iuformant left the neighborho.-cU had" been *8 the day ou which the matter wus to have been' settled bjPa !’ resort to the rifl', but bei g a vt-iy wet day* - as our readers will recollect, the udair had not come off. _Mr Kdw^r.l !> GUrke w,a»,.Y 'we. understand,, on Lw way .to endeavor t 0.,, try anff arrange dlia and pteveuft apyfhlrtlmr ViblsSba,” * *'•“ *'''