Native News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 93, 23 March 1885, Page 2

Native News.

A report comes frtitn Rahotu that sine© the removal of the Constabulary the natives are ver^ Ijopnoea^le^ Here is a specimen of 'their behaviouf which I take from , the #a% News, of this date (16th March) :— The natives,' m defiance of Ts Whiti, broke, into- Major Genntfs building at Parihaka, taking his things away, and Te. Whiti ha& to 'take baa dray himself aad take bacE some of the Major's things. The native.s are report, ed to say " Ballance 1 is' Wy : goo'dThe give all our land back,'* arid !ta. tell the settlers that they will all have to clear off the land as the Bryoe ■ Gbveriime'nt stole the land, but Mr Ballance is going to give it all back with' houses and all other improvements; : TheJqettlers are very indignant, and no wonder. But where is the remedy when Mr Ballance assures them that; he has' &vesy confidence m the peaceableness of the natives? Where is the remedy? r Giye us back Johnßryce or' a man ;who is '^& grab, pie. with the native Question—a ,' mSn who is far seeing and string; nblj a > w^aV vaoillating individual like the present administrator.— Correspondent,*?! i : I (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.). •> - New PLTMoiittt, MaVbtf2£> Fully 1600 natives parsed town at 10-30 a.m: : They' '-were -heidld by Titokowaru. The cavalcade • >*& a nearly a mile long, consisting, of 60- b x » presses^and spring carts, 800 hpxsemen, and 500 natives on foot..Thay prjeeeded to Mangaone Pa, two miles from ' town and remain there for two or threeSs! A large crowd of Europeans assembled at the pa to-day to witneßsthe proceed, ings but nothing was done excoDt feasting mussels, potatoes, &c, being the princi' pal tare. ■ i • ■