ARREST OF TITOKO WARU.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 268, 10 November 1881, Page 2

ARREST OF TITOKO WARU.

~w i m Thursday, 11-37 am. litoko Waru and seven other natives have been arrested and all chiefs of tribes will be taken in tura. No resistance was offered This morning tl a A C's are as work repairing ihe road and the Volunteers are at diiil whilst a conipu y of A. Ca »er.t on to the road from P„riha'<a to Str.tford and will commence work if :or dinner. Any -hares in ths way will co nsdowa.

[Press Association Spechl Correspondent.]

Pongareiih, Thursd.y. Mr Brycg left for Parituka at 630 thit morning. Tha Maori. »tate ihat coin, greenstone, &a., to ths value of _3l)0 were taken durirg tho Constabulary search. About 120 stand of aim* were taken darinjr Mr Bryce'a visit io Memaia. Thera is noihing of importance to-day yet.

One Constabulary company has just been marched into the pah wiih Mr Bryce, for wbat purpose is not known. Tha Volunteers are diilling. Everythiug is quiet.

_ 10 a.m. Te Wheta and five other chiefs of different tribes have been arretted and are now in the guard tent. The Constabulary are now in the marae looking for others. Colonel Roberts, with Major Mair is superintending the operations from the top of a wbars Major Tuke and Captain Morrison Wr-re also preseat. Oiher chiefs wero looked for but could not ba identified. Only 60 guns were taken at Manaia, but a large quantify ot powder aud cartridges were seized. Mr Bryce informs ni* that ths Constabulary will commence making the road through Paiihaka after dinner. The natives will not disperse.

Tie chiefs arrested ara Titoko Warn RaDgipuratcoako, Patutiapai, Uatario,' Hariaiuo, Hi Makuki, and Kekepekepakeki! These prisoners along with the others taken on Saturday will, Mr Bryce informs me, probably be sent to New Plymouth. The reason why ibe prisoners are not yet sent I? that Mr Bryce fears that all the Natives at Pcrihvka would ireceed there and tquat in the stieets.

[N.Z. Timea Special Correspondent.]

PtrxGAßEnrj-, November 7. Your correspondent again visited Parihaka last night, and found Te Whiti's meeting house densely crowded with Natives listening to Te Puhuahoaho's lecture, whilst Wi Parata, Bible in hand, looked up the texts as the' preacher referred to them. It may be shortly stated that the object of the preacher was to show that neither the Government nor the soldiers were responsible for the attack now made upon them ; but were simply a scourge in the hands of Jehovah to chastise his people that they might attain salvation. After this the conversation turned upon the killing of their pigs and the theft of their potatoes by the Voluuteers, and it was remarked that it was strange tbat, after refusing a present of potatoes made to the Constabulary in the morning, the latter should, a few hours afterwards, steal from their pits and pull up their growing crops, the potatoes of which are not larger than walnuts. One old warrior was very irate, saying that they had been deprived of their stored and growing potatoes, their pigs, and their geese ; that he himself had been an expert forager in his younger days, and could even now break into houses, and he hoped that he should&not be driven to try again if hi3 hand had lost its cunning He was reproved by Te Rtngi, who said that such things were of the past, and that nothing like retaliation must ensue, that the last and great effort of provocative speakin* was in September, and the Europeans must be no more provoked. It was then remarked that although the horses had now been removed from the wheat field in which some Volunteers were camped, the wheat had beeu destroyed. It transpired that on Tohu being taken down on an express to the camp, he observed the horses feeding on the wheat, and on Mr Hursthouse visiting him yesterday he asked that the wheat might be leftte grow for food for the people, and in consequence the horses were removed. It is no doubt impossible to prevent petty depredations of the kind amongst a mixed co'lection of men in an enemy's country, and it is rumored that the removal of some Volunteers yesterday evening from Paribaka to Rahotu was prompted by a knowledge of their freebooting propensities. The camp at Parihaka is growing into shape, and the tents are rapidly r'sino- in military lines.