WAIKATO.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 November 1868, Page 282

WAIKATO.

(From Southern dross, Y6th November.^ As far as we have been able to learn, no hews .calculated to cause any alarm has-been-received from 'Waikato; A very great feeling of apprehension rests on tjbe. minds of 'the people of Auck'arising 1 / of the fact , that scenes such ,as ,have, lately occurred at Poverty Bay might be enacted in Waikato. There is no use in endeavoring -to" conceal from ourselves the fact that the natives could clear the whole of the confiscated lands in Waikato. The last letters received in Auckland from.the King’s council have not the slightest; indication that it is intended to break the truce that how exists in that district, but, on the contrary, are of a peaceful tenor. These letters, however, assert, repeatedly and emphatically, that the Kingites have not given up a single inch of the confiscated land; It appears that one of the principal merchants of. Auckland lately wrote to stating that, if he chose, he would ask the Government to give .up a portion of Waikato again.. We are not aware whether , the King wrote any answer to the gentleman who made the proposition, but if he. did it was emphatic and deckled, that no kind of compromise would be entered into. We would fain hope that even Titokowaru’s victory and the massacre at Poverty Bay would not cause the King to give the word to let slip the dogs of war on Waikato. But who can tell whether the King will be able to restrain the more fiery spirits, who see their lands at Rangiaohia and Kihikihi cultivated by the military settlers ?—-Daily Southern Cross, 16th November. -