THE WAIMATE PLAINS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5614, 27 March 1879, Page 2

THE WAIMATE PLAINS.

(own correspondent press agency.) Hawera, Wednesday. I saw Standish Wilson and Whareata today, and went to the Plains. The situation is this : .All the surveyors were courteously carted off the Plains, but only boys were employed on the, carting business ; none of the chiefs appeared. Whareata told me that if the surveyors came back they would be carted oft twenty times, but that the orders were that no drop of blood should be shed until the pakeha became the aggressor. Some New Plymouth people told me that for their part they would settle the 'question by the strong hand, and wipe out these Parihaka natives ; but Wilson has a different idea—he would make roads through all the confiscated lands and trust to contingencies. -Many of the people-in the district would like no better fun or employment than a Maori war, but there is a strong section which deprecates hostilities, The removal of the surveyors, so far as I can gather, simply means a protest on the part of the Maoris against the legality of confiscation, and they tell me they will continue to remove the surveyors, even if it be a dozen times, but will do nothing more . than this and protest against the confiscation. Meanwhile the survey people are all at the bridge.