TARANAKI.
An account of the recent peace-making amongst the Natives of Taranaki, will be found below. Our sincere hope is that the solemn promise therein recorded will be adhered 10, and lhat we shall hear no more of scenes of bloodshed from that hitherto troubled district. Before the late feuds, the Ngatiawa had by their industry become possessed of considerable properly in stock, agricultural implements, and also in money. At the termination of those feuds, we find the results ofyearsof labor reduced almost tonaught,and the people themselves presenting the downcast appearance of despair. While engaged Ibis profitless work of carrying on the strife, their cultivations were neglected and overrun with pigs, their stacks of wheat were sodden with rain and turned into dung heaps, and the finest of their cattle either sold or exchanged for the means of purchasing guns and ammunition for the destruction of their own friends and relatives! Happily, however, ihe feeling now prevalent, which experience of the above ills i»as produced, encourages the hope that the tranquillity of the district will not r-gaiu be
disturbed by evil doers; and that by a resolute determination to live peaceably and cultivate their lands, the Taranaki Natives may soon recover the position which they occupied previous to the feuds. This may be accomplished with less difficulty if they will bear in mind the preparations made and ihe solemn compacts entered into amongst themselves at Hui-te-Rangiora, and if, instead of giving credit to false reports circulated amongst them by thoughtless men, they will in future place a little more confidence in the advice freely and continually given to them by their best friends for their express instruction and benefit.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 20, 30 September 1859, Page 1
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279TARANAKI. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 20, 30 September 1859, Page 1
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