LATEST NATIVE NEWS.
Patea, Friday. About thirty natives are now fencing on the other side of the Waingongoro river Titoko Warn is not among them, he having gone with others to bring timber in for building purposes. The natives are very reticent. They state tbat they are doing this to annoy the Government, the object of which haa nothing to do with them, but with Te Whiti who they say will settle all with the Government. They have every confidence in Te Whiti, and are apparently more infatuated than ever. Haweha Friday. Ihe Maones are still congregating across the river about two miles on the Waimate .flam, where they are fenciDg and building J whares, Kakaru and Tikoto Waru being ia command. They intend to come within half a mile of the Constabulary barracks. At a meeting held at Normanby, resolutions were carried to the effect that the settlers wanted to see Waimate occupied and Hiroki taken, thus breaking Te Whiti's maua. J_very day, they say, complicates matters, as is shown by tbe Natives occupying the
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 176, 25 July 1879, Page 2
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176LATEST NATIVE NEWS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 176, 25 July 1879, Page 2
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