LARGE NATIVE MEETING AT KARIKARI.

Paki o Matariki, Issue 6, 6 October 1892, Page 7

LARGE NATIVE MEETING AT KARIKARI.

We extract from the "Bay of Plenty Times" an UNKNOWN of a large meeting at Karikari Maungatawa, Tauranga, The meetting comprised 300 atives. It was called together for the purpose of hearing I awniao's sentiments iv Ins peasi > 1 ail otttwr matters, through tlie c iiet'« wii» have just vstel mm at M luugaliavya, his settle ue it in the WaiKito .lUttno. tt'e gull -r tint i'awitiau acknowledges accepting a piMsi«>o but h is ijow de ided, in iiffeieuue tu tun wishes of h.s i-uople, tj forego the filthy lucre. Amo wst the propo-jtious l»robeforr the meeting, we un were the following.—Tii.it ail surveys a.d sale of native lands oe stopped. > hit no sub uvis»on of l&n-l be allowed to be made ia .Nat»ve Lund -ouitti —I hat the Natives are of opi nou that all Buui-eßßr>ii orders before tne iSutive Laud t ourts be stopped.

TAWHIAOS PENSION. The following is an extrect from the " N. Z. Herald," Auckland: — "Tne Hon. Mr Cadnmn believes that the agitation regarding 1 awhiao's pe-ision is promoted by interested parties. Tiiere can lie 110 doulit, the Native .Minister says, tnat Tajvhiap accepted the pension. He has received efcof>, ;js for tne first quarter's allowance, aud ue believes he will dmtiuu- to take the ino.iey. Tliis is tlie third time that ail attempt has been made to show that I'awhiao is not satisfied with thfi arrangement for a pension, lho Minister considers the story groundless.

The following w.th reference to Tawhiao's pension, appears i;i tlie annual report of Mr. G. T. Wilkinson, Government Native Aite.it: ' Tho chiefs who conduct the affairs of the K-ing movoinout are greatly iii' enscd at 1 awhiao havin" accepted a pension troni the Government i° in lact, some of them stoutly deny that he has done s i, and .'or the sake of the cause they will, 1 have no ilouht, do their utmost to bring about a misunderstanding between him and the Government in order ttiat he may be induced by them to give up liis pension. A BIG FLOOD. A letter has been received at Maungakuwa from Te Awa-a-te-atna, Bay oi Plenty dated 6tb of August last. The most important news which the letter contained was :ui account oi a great flood at that place. The whole of the crops have been destoryed. There has been more damage by the lute flood then was caused by the Tarawera eruption. The " whare "of Te Hurinui is in water, Ngatiawa are lamenting over their loss caused by the flood. A few weeks of fine weathei should cause the \vat.°.r to subside. Ngatiawa will then return to their settlements. Two men were drowned, one of the men belonged to the Whanau-a-Apanui, the other belonged to Ngatiawa. The bodies have not yet been recovered, they have probably been washed out to sea. Te Hurinui has received invitations from Ngati-Raukawa and Te Heuheu. Te Heuheu's meeting is to be held in October. Te Hurinui has not yet re-

plied to the invitations; no doubt, it is on account of the great loss which he and his tribes hare just experienced through the flood, but will do so when his inind is more settled.