NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 28 July 1880, Page 3

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

r ' _■ (ftTTRLEGRAPH.) • Havtera, Jnly 28. The Staf Sajs thai/ despite the Govern; men: ci;ntraiifo£iari r _'it" ibtlteves ifc3 information n>gar2ingHhe cause of the.natives fencing reliable-- It, is.'.stated that the plains natives, especially the young men; are all gems? .to Parafaaka this- week. *_Thi3 j, wrlier tban- asaab Four-young men rmiu throushhere-'thw rpornipg. Oil being asked it tfiey were going-to Parihaka, one replied, '*Goin£toi betaken prisoner next Keek.'' A person 'who'-has arrived from tliu amp saji He Will not be surprised'# i vary large" tody 'of Maoris go to wor£ at fencing wijjln neif few'daysl. jPhere a nu excitement. zjrnOTgst'the Europeans, Jut many inquiries are made as tawhatic all means and wben jt will end. - .-Xew .PrruotTH, Joly 26. - Intelligence was received in town yesterday that eiijht additional prisoners were in chare of the Constabulary .at thecamp.The'arrest of foar of the-prisoners was made yesterday, and' tht3."M<Jrning", When" the usual inspection of the' fences- wa3 madu by "the Constabulary, four other natives, who were , found; engagedin fencing, were immediately arrested,. They mrrendeifel without the least opposition,; 3 nd siil'probably be. brought into town this eveuiffg, and .shipped on hoard-the Hineraoanfar Wellington.- X)n Saturday, wen the. .native prisoners were brought into town, ihey - were followed -by-a large number »f native-woman,vwho were crying anil and" vowing vengga&Cg on Government-for robbing them of their husbaniktnM relatives.-. The natives have generally assumed -a* salky demeanor, and abow a gjteit b.versiob-Wthe Advices jiiqtn. tfid' eamp. are M'the effect 'iiit the Jyo'nstaFiilary are not advancing" with theitoad, but "are "now working back widening the formatign.of the road. .".Good progress is being. .made by the - -public works contingent, in-gravelling and contacting jiiacines, bat- it will take coirsderable time-before--ihafc-portion of the work wiE : ire comb&ted. - July ;- Owing to "tli'a inclemencyof "the" weather yesterday, the "natives' -were" not' sent into rc\vn r bat JfxSt morning two Conveyances left town, for *wKefe 'fhcf prisoners-. t we?9 . jesterday.,. -.This morning: four lot her- natives ;wer9_atre§ ted at tie cafflpfand-wp bebrooght in company -with -those-'.previously >fakpn. There ate twefir-e prisoners now in custody, and others - are -expected -to J be to-1 morrow.*-*:-*" ~ Chbistchtjkch, Jnly '27,' The Hinemoa arrived - 40-day with henty-six Maori prisoners', including Te Whera, who landed under a gnard. of Armed Canatabulaijy. There was sa-Jrery srga crowd eager "to see the noioiious jlaoris fcDtn the prophet's country. rThe prisoners were very good tempered£and shook fiends with —their escort-when, leaving.» They; were afterwards bathed, ind dresjed in satiit of "clothes, not,; however; a prison uoiform, ind assigned 'o i septate portion of'the prison.