THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 88, 4 July 1879, Page 3

THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

♦ . (per press agency.) Hawejia, July 2. A 'Maori warned a settler near town yesterday to leave his house and land, saying they were his. The natives are very bounceable. The M aorjs are massing in great force on 'the ptfter side of the river. Titokowaru says he is determined to go on ploughing, but does not wish to injure the settlers, as his fight is with the Government. He did not know last night of the Maoris being imprisoned at New Plymouth. There is no truth whatever in the "'report that fighting has commenced. 1 The ploughing has hot re-commenced. Te^Whitisays that the ploughmen

1. having been imprisoned, his prophecj is ended. This is taken to mean thai s the matter passes into other hands - now, which, it is supposed, will b( . Titokowaru's. , The .Native Minister has receivec a telegram f"om Major Brown, ai 3 Hawera, to the following effect : — - Katene says there is a messenger from - Te Whiti expected at Waiwerinui, 3 to give final instructions to Titoko- ) waru, who, he says, has been able tc > hold his own against Waikato, Taupo, • and the p<tkeha ; and he is to take • charge of the ploughing. He wishes l Te Iki and Titokowaru to be taken i prisoners by the Europeans, but not i those who have been imprisoned before, as they have lost caste. These • latter are to go to Parihaka, and place 1 themselves under bis protection. The ploughers are to go on ploughing, even if the Europeans strike them with the sword. They are not to resist, even if they ore killed ; it will be all ri^ht. The ploughing is not merely ploughing of land, but is ploughing the mana, or authority of Government, so as to irritate them to go seek him (Te Whiti) at Parihaka ; and when it does, the two races will be united as one. Te Iki is to take a ploughing party, and if that is stopped he is to take a fresh one — party after party as they are taken prisoners, until ten parties shall have been taken ten times. Katene says Titokowaru will lead the last ploughing party. Ploughing will probably be resumed to-morrow morning. Titokowaru is opposed to the natives south of Hawera doing any ploughing in their district, as they have lost caste either by siding with the Government, or by being taken prisoners. No arms are to be taken, and no resistance on any account is to be offered. Between three and four hundred women and children have assembled to-day to held a "tangi" for the people going to plough, as if they were going to their I death.