IMPORTANT NATIVE NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 288, 9 December 1869, Page 2

IMPORTANT NATIVE NEWS .

y \i J : : r--~nP— f ! Mr.Jß , ,qx v^vhq has,,; been on an official visit to_tlie_ Natives of Upper Wanganui,-. , h^s, .telegraphed a jengthyliccount ofj-JiisQ; " proceedings' to- the GoveVnmentljat Wel-r , .i.iiiottrO.q, jaud.'we. . the^ fojlowiqg ex-; '■iracts/iroimr h-^ -;,;; 1 " , "'','j' The leading.^subjects- discussed were-as. follews'':^" 1 «^> ■^•0«O i>^o>'o 1 --"' •rtn-sy iwxi uy*zol (lvw>l\ \ ?.rr,:i.i Ist. I was -tdldi y thb.tt ; 'th i e 'Government.! had conquered all Tongariro (i.e., all l the 1 .» qountry r about. Taupo. and the r JJpper jW^n-;7 ! What were we going to d 6 witn" it ? .i.^Theysisey.idently: expected . aj large,c< nfiscation .like the ...East Coast). ! I re/plU.d,. Twhy, should; jGroyernment take the" 'la'nd^of his r 'Mends"and ii allies l ? / nNojt '6ne£ acre .would , "Be taken. All wouTd remain" ,to those who owned -it, .before, v As regard-, ed the little piece_beh}ngi,pg to le ijLgPj Heu, that chieffhad^aotedlfooltehlyl Ja^ , had . beeq^caught'- -ia'^the'^'snares ofo-TB u^fo^,)s^ ioQAK 4ife^-#kuWu#>l%l6ftJlW!9W sjeeßithefi : Go.vernoTJ:an r d) MrwMt'lWaal m!ST ,^ T , ,2nd, 1 The 11 ne^t^'pdwtHVa's^he Ngaruru . a (lie* Waitotlafa^ T^ioe^^wlfiM'^ougiht ovy Titoko's Bide, .hut have' since b'eenfi^hi^jng.* .'fp^;njjs{. $^ ar i n'osfaj living ;fcw.ftb^ the WfttP;,ganqLriverif' What^dGoveTriment mean ; off§pce^s/^ Clan d fs lipsrifGoyernpm !Bro vwne 'and; Mty OMJTS&fa;-{an^ ;JhZpea^ fight;^. with) the^ ; ; They ought-tcihave; helpedlthe pateiKal^rts Ky- : i!;u^-< yy:^fy.'.-'^y^ny--:y'.yo.^yy''y. - r .,..-,j:,-/,./i)uw »• come^wayv;tos -Wanganui riyer.anq : ;,beea 7 ~*My* : y^tv^ J^^k£^&.yy y^y . yyyy.F'.r'- • neu tral.. r V7e_ry : greats was^ their . .^vrong— doin& : a Ba t 'they hadHsince^been fi^htingu

in part % afon;ed ifoyJthelr offence. -They wouTd:hot;b£ punished; but they must not go back, to^Wa^tar : a;r,; 3rd. The . nexT^'point raised was' the Pakakoe, Tauroa's people, who have been come hack- to ns ,'TjWe . *y-ilb keep-them. on this river, aiid'rhake them "soldiers for the Queen;- -as=we^a*e^T«»deii£b^«Ji[aaruru. This.&eqWsti waMlcMen^ pressed by the ""ffiemtrie's; y ~ "7"~""'7~7 ~" """." . I replied" that ' l Tauroa7s;.\offence was great ; lie 'ilso'was lifrnj^-peaoeaoly with : tlie'' p"ak"ehW- ; each* on' ' hfe-own : land' when Tit6'':cahieJ vi ''He/had- 5 ; ebna'"tdj. os'ee0 see the Governnieptj-afc Wellington,';^nd'sjtybrn to Jbe faith.fui..;',' Then-' he ..had joined Titoko Tn his evif work.' "lt was; rig&rti, that an. '-example-''sbou-ld«--be'"Tmade- to* deter other tri,bes. . , „.,..... .... •; ■ ' y '" r : Ju "':S-VefeiTed to" 'tlie scape /goat^aniopg the ... Israel ites, ; f nn(V:sai<A,Tauroa^ ; trXb / e/must be made to bear their own punjshment, and •be a ( w'armng'-ttf i Qt#er§ ••'^ut^Hiiflike the . Mf^Mauina^^y£tjh^ ; goa^, 'if ;[tbes/ehaved well, by and" by^jfchey/.migVtdMvi.blought cibaok aridiplaeed/likei/theboNgaruru among the Wanganui^peoplfV; this '"was 'justi ' (Tik'abga) l/^d\^bat'i < tKej ; were - ,quite.satjisfied./o^j/i;u -j..,; \d-ni2u 4th. Kaimanawa — Topiaassertedlclaims • to this'.conntryj vHe.hadqno.'iwish to pre- ' vebtthe pakeh'a-'exploring'br'getrting gold; but he was' the" owner* of "that riibuntain . . 1 1 . .yy.-.'iijvu. T -with others, and must, be consulted. I . ;sai<i .these questions abgut[land,.,mus > t wait till. Mr. M'Lean.^.came./, JSev/waWlearned in: Maori. Tikangja,-,andi couldltalksto them withhisio.wn, .mouth. •;> zutl0 : l 'n/L Topia'pleilges' J himselftd ; ta'ke :j "Te ci K;ooti, if 'he r i«'auy^hereUn his country, dead or ; alive. If he cannot find hjm.._hV3yill go straight on to W aikato, and endeavor to make out where he. is, and followpim up. .As;soon.;as he lias 'found out ms.^whereabouts he will send for Kemp, -and they Ytogether^xU'.take'ihnnV'"' ICKad^ken 40 „ stand. of Eufields and ammunition with j l me"; these! bantied oyer^ to Tppia, who took them as th's Queeb's guns and as the seal of friendship l between us. He. was evidently greatly impressed, nay ..affected, by t this rmarkrof, confidence j;and,*after all that passed oxt the subject, nt itnext to impossible that a chief .of TopiaVcharacr'ter^could be-pther wise -than loyal. I told ihim it, was my own life and the U,fe ; of the pakeha - that- I-placed ...in-his-hands. You may dspe;od qpon it (_ they; are as safe with him as they_JK.ould be with Kemp or :(%R^Ci a i 1 4rI\^« l i^fea v §i t A c,e ,9 1 a g aia tomorrow if I a§ked for them. 7f 1 iMy people stook up.a-largeiQupen's flag, which, had ov,ey my Jeanoe, and ere>cted-:it'' r inathe -middle -of Pehi's pa. I do not think7"that flag had ever waved •'there be^r'ef^ejha^ King ; war')bega'n./;^o7 ofjiey. l ,flag7;^a^ t shown, , .nor any symhol of. the.. King- party.