MAORI READERS.
(To the Editor of the Patka Mail.)
Sir, —You arc probably not aware that your paper has some circulation among the natives north of Waingongoro. I do not know if they are subscribers, but was surprised to hear that it was read by them. It appears that Mr Williams (licensed interpreter) changed watches with Tito Kowaru, a week or so since, the attraction being a lino piece of greenstone attached to Mr Williams’ watch.
On Saturday a paragraph appeared in your paper, attaching- political significance to the transaction. Yesterday, _ Tito Kowaru sent the watch back, with a message to Captain Wilson, to say that the exchange was only a private transaction. But his attention had been called to the statement in the Patea Mail, and on seeing that the Europeans viewed the transaction as his consent to the survey of lands across the Wbungongoro, he had returned the watch.
The natives have called a large meeting of all interested in those lands, to take place at Omuturangi on the 12th of December.
The feeling of natives on question of ceding those lands will probably be freely expressed at that meeting, and it will afford an opportunity of ascertaining the amount of opposition that will be offered to the acquisition of the Waimate Plains. —I am, &c., A SUBSCRIBER.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 277, 8 December 1877, Page 2
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