NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1001, 4 July 1879, Page 2

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Nsvr P.GTAJ.OC7TII. July 3. Is is reported that the natives are c.ntraircrl in ploughing land belonging to Mr. I'lynodoi). It is rumored that they intend ploughing at Tepapakou. WsLiit?i'C".'o:f, July 3. The party of natives arrested at Hawera numbered eleven, and they will l)e taken at once overland to Wanganui, and thence by steamer. The thirteen arrested yesterday at White C'iifl's will be brought here by the Hinemoa, and she will call at Patea for the other prisoner, Ngamari. Altogether thorn are now sixty-one prisoners. The fifteen committed at New Plymouth will be tried there. The Government fully expect to get Tito Kowaru shortly, and probably Te Whiti himself. Yesterday, at the north side of the river, a tangi, at which some 300 or 400 women and children were present, was held over the arrested ploughmen, as though they were going to their death. The party of 33 captured at White Ciifi's by Major Ti:l:c made no resistance. At Mokau, Te Wctore has emphatically announced himself on our side, and requested the Government to keep the pakeha troubles away from Mokau. Te Whiti, immediately he heard that there was a likelihood of: unpleasantness at Mokau. sent messengers to order the mail between Mokau and Pukearekere to be stopped. Te Wetere and his people were much angered at this, and it is their intention to keep friendly relations.