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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5354, 25 May 1878, Page 2

Wi call attention to. the letter of our jWaikato correspondent, in ■which is given an account of occurrences at the recent meetings of'the Premier and the Native Minister with Tawhiao and his people at Hikurangi, and with Rewi, chief of the Maniapotos at Panin. This account differs widely from the reports given in the Auckland newspapers, .which are understood to he official, and to be published with the authority of the Government.- The difference is apparently altogether oh the side of truthfulness. .There are touches in the account of the interview with Bewi which are charmingly characteristic, and bring us' at once into the presence. The natives themselves, as we have seen, have become alarmed at the reports the newspapers have given of the proceedings at these meetings, and the inveracity of Ministers, by reviving the old distrust, may postpone although it cannot . prevent that final reconciliation on honorable terms with, the King's party to which, as we have said, the policy of the last ten years has been steadily leading., ;