THE CENTRAL RAILWAY.
m . - "•;:.". Native Opposition. (B« TjBXE^BAFrf.) , {UNITED P.EBSS ASSOCIATION.} ' New Plymouth, February ?1. The Taranaki Herald's Ur^nui correspondent writes as follows '• — ' Rawson and Mountfort's railway survey party hare gone up to the source of the Waitara River, and I imagine will remain there until farther orders The natives are jjacking ,tbe tucker that was up the Tongaporuau River toad»poton Waitara River. The half ton that Taumate and bit party stole they have taken away m canbes to their 'own settlement*, either to Fuketapu or MateaWheta on the Wanganui River. I hear they hare also got Mr SkeetV theodolite, wbieh was m the whare the tuolrer was m. T«umat« aMred Waite where Skeet was, and said, if he found him be would kill him.' He told Waite hia name. This is the same native that some few years back caught Skeet m ■the bush m that, dirsction when he was brought into Wahganui by Topia. Taumate and party and the lot that killed " Moffatt are not particularly strong! In numberp, possibly a hundred, unless joined by other natives, which would bd jloubtiul. 1 :
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 71, 22 February 1884, Page 3
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184THE CENTRAL RAILWAY. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 71, 22 February 1884, Page 3
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