Native News.
(united press association.) Opunake, Tuesday. ■ Mr Ballance. paid a visit to Parihaka yesterday and saw all the principal people residing there including Te Wliiti and Tohu. Te Wliiti, who was m his house, was^reticent and mysterious at : first, and complained that the Native Minister had not visited him when passing throughon a previous occasion. He, however, soon became friendly. ( Tohu received the Ministerial party and"welcomed them with groat cordiality and afterwards presided at a dinner at which the Native Minister was invited. The attitude of all the Natives (if the village was most friendly, and the Native. Minister left convinced of the großs'exaggeration of the reports regarding them. ■ ■■' ; = Inspector Pardy, accompanied' by a mounted constable, arrived at Pungarehu this morniig to enquire into some cases of petty theft. It is intended to give Inspector Pardy charge of Taranafci Provincial District^ Inspector Janmes retaining Wanganui. The Natives complain of excessive charges made by the Public Trust Office and many of them decline to take, their rents m consequence. Mr Ballance has promised to bring the matter under the notice of the Government on his return to Wellington. \
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 140, 19 May 1885, Page 3
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188Native News. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 140, 19 May 1885, Page 3
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