NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1014, 21 July 1879, Page 2

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Hawera, July 19. The Maoris are returning to Parihaka, Many leading friendly Maoris, who were previously ponri regarding the ploughing, lepui.'!!, profossiiig Joy that Te- SYhiti says that ploughing is to be suspended on the settlers' farms. One aggressive move of the month is to be the erection of huts (practically a pah) on the main road, across the plain about six or seven miles from Hawera, near the Ivapuni River. The ostensihle object is to plough for a crop, tp provide food for wayfarers, and send' thorn on their way happy. This movement, if attempted, should bo checked, as it gives the Maoris another lien over the Plains. The Maoris still insist that there will be no fighting. They laugh at the yarns in circulation about Te Whiti having ordered them to take possession of the stores and residence of Mr. Gammon. Te Whiti says that the Maori prisoners will soon return. In the meantime othe.r Maoris must work extra bard, aim provide food for the wives <>i t,us Uiunyi's, and this by ploughing .mu cropping the Plain lands not hitherto under odltivation, nor near their p.-ot.m; There is not the slighu. 1 id outbreak. To Whiti says the prisoner Wakawiria was his racehorse, Pharaoh carried out Joseph's interpretation of dreams, and provided against years of famine ; he said if Wakawiria carried out his interpretation of the sign of the times, all the prisoners would soon come back amidst thunder and lightning and rain, lie has placed all the power of the prisoners if* tho hand of Wakawiria, so keep un eye on him.