Native News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1689, 20 April 1886, Page 4

Native News.

INTERTRIBAL DISPUTES. TRAGEDY NEAR WAIPAWA. A PAH BURNT. FOUR NATIVES BURNT ALIVE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION) Gisborne, Tuesday. Reports are to hand from Waipawa of a most horrible affair having occurred at Waipiro. The Waipiro Block was adjudicated upon some six months ago by the Land Court, and the chief ISlihonilio was declared to have no m tercet mit He was strongly opposed to the decision and applied for a new trial which was just about to take place. H«jolaO at once erected a pah containing many whares m which some 100 natives were l'ving. An intensely strong feeling consequently existed between the tresspassers and natives who were declared by the Court to be the owners, and several conflicts have taken place. On Wednesday or Thursday night last the whole pa!) is reported to have been burned, and three men and one woman were burnt to death. It is believed the noi-itite natives fired the pah. Mr Ballance and Major Ropata were expected to ar rive at Waipiro yesterday and would malic enquiry into the affair. The foregoing is only based on Maori reports. Later. Further reports from the Waipiro dis"triet show that Ihe previous report was exaggerated. The piih has been burnt by opposing natives, but no lives were lost m the fire, and the report that four livuH were lost there came from the fact that two natives were burnt to death m an accidental fire near there a few days previous. S une are said to have been • injured m the luirning of the pah, and thorp wore several narrow escapes. The feclintr between the opposing natives is soid to be moat hitter. The sergeant ot poliro Ihg £one up. Tt is nbonfe 100 mile* from here and near the East Cape, • '