Native News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 15, 16 June 1885, Page 3

Native News.

From the Bay of Plenty Times we learn that on Saturday, May 23rd, the miscreant Te Kooti, accompanied by a numerous suite, arrived at Eotorua from Cambridge, on his way to Maketu. There was considerable howling at the pah, but ho breach of the peace was committed, though it was not far from it on Sunday evening, when Te Kooti forcibly wanted to enter a certain hotel. However, Constable Abrahams, with considerable tact, prevented this part of the programme. The notorious chief and his band left after breakfast on Monday morning. Te Kooti being driven m a two-horse bu/wy. As a parting salute to the assembled crowd, he put his thumb to his nose, extending the dirty digits, turned up the white of his eyeballs, and cleverly exhibited about six inches of his tongue. The effects can be better imagined than described.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) New Plymouth, Monday. A telegram from the White Cliffs states that Rewi, who was accompanying Wetere from the Waikato, on reaching Mokau, had to return home, being too ill to proceed. Rewi was corning to dig up the mere buried at the foot of the main support of the house built to commemorate the Waitara meeting m 1878, as Wetere wishes to remove the house to Mokau. According to Maori idea, the mere can only be removed by the original depositor, or those closely connected with him, without danger to life, so great is the tapu. The " twelve apostles '.' who accompany Wetere have the authority to act for Rewi. The party than go on to Te Whiti at Parihaka.

Manaia, Saturday. Mrs Ogden, wife of a settler near Otakeho, reports that a native named Rama who lives on the Auroa road, has for days past been annoying the family by persisting m digging up potatoes, trying to catch their horses, tearing down wire from fences, and indulging m threatening gestures. It is known, however, that a native up that way is inclined to lunacy, and it is supposed this is the native. The police are making inquiries.