LATEST NATIVE NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 148, 23 June 1879, Page 2

LATEST NATIVE NEWS.

THREATENING ASPECT OF AFFAIRS. THE SETTLERS^TAKING ACTION. m., , „. . Patea, Monday. Titoko Warn has not yet returned from Panhaka. He awaits instructions from Te Whiti who says that his mat must be swept clean, meaniug that the settlers must be swept off the land. A further contingent of Natives arrived yesterday after the ploughmen had been turned off aud wished to resume ploughing but Commissioner Williams warned them saying that the settlers were not to be played with, which dispersed them, but it is supposed they will return in great force and attempt ploughing. Every preparation is being made for any emergency re M ... r, Weli ' in <iton, Monday. It, after the Government have dove all that is possible to prevent bloodshed, hostilities should take place, the Government will at once send their flying column of Constablary now over 300 strong, to break up the Panhaka settlement, leaving the protection of the Taranaki frontier and Waingongoro to the settlers in the respective districts Major Roberts, who covered the retreat at Okatua in the last war ,has been sent for to take command of the Constabulary and Major Noake will control affairs at the Waingongoro boundary. The Ngapuhis have offered to furnish a contingent if the Government wish Kewi also said he would send 500 Maniapotos if required. Even without the Ngatiporou contingent the Government calculate on beine able to place nearly 1000 friendly natives' in the disturbed districts should occasion arise. The Government have chartered the Manawatu which leaves to-night for Wanganui with 60 more Armed Constabulary. I The latest information from Hawera is that large numbers of Maoris are collected on the other side of the Waingongoro river but it is unknown whether they are armed or not. New Plymouth, Monday. Three bullocks belonging to Te Whiti's ploughmen were impounded at Oakura during the absence of the ploughmen at 1 anhaka. Kamokamo demanded their release on Saturday, and being refused by the poundkeeper, he threatened to tomahawk the poundkeer aud break the pound. During a fracas which occurred in the evening Kamokanio was put iv the mud by some Arawa members of the Constabulary whom he insulted. He has since paid the pound fep and released the bullocks. ™. „ IHaweba, Monday. When the news that the Maoris were I n ) i^ u lr hl , Dg Lmn g stoI >c's land was received, 200 Volunteers paraded, and decided if the Government gave an unsatisfactory replyto

turn the Maoris off, and send a telegr am notifying the Government of their resoluti on Mr M'Lean, the owner of the land opposite Livingstone's, was elected to lead a p ar ty who were to remove the Maoris at noon, but when they saw the Maoris destroying Livingstone s lawn they could wait no longer but yoked up the bullocks, and carted all off to the Waimate Plains. There were 200 Europeans present. The Maoris were very su l]<v saying, •« Wait, you see." They also threatened to come back at once, saying the land was theirs and thqy intended cropping it. Ihe settlers ere waiting to see if they will come back, being determined to turn them off again. At a meeting, it was determined to ask the Government to accept the service a of 100 men, whom Captain Tinnerty said he could raise ; it was also determined to request the Government to find work for the settlers and othera in building redoubts. It was also decided that any future aggressors should be put off, and the friendly natives be earned to come within a certain time if hostilities were immiuent. Livingstone's house was guarded last night by thirty volunteers, and the sttilersjare resolved to protect each other to the utmost, and to throw the responsibility on the Government.