REWI AND NEWSPAPER REPORTS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 327, 5 June 1878, Page 4

REWI AND NEWSPAPER REPORTS.

The Auckland Star says:—llevvi Maniapoto, or Manga, lias sent an important letter to the Government —a translation of which document is published in another column. The twig has been cunningly limed, but the bird is not caught. lie, is in fact, far too old a bird to be entrapped by the shallow artifices of the little band of ornithological specimen hunters who have been trying to catch him these two or three years past. They had baited the trap, and were impatiently awaiting the result, when the bird poised its wing's, and flew away to Te Kuiti. Eewi is evidently far too shrewd a rangitira to be- drawn into tbe toils of the selfish ring of 1 xnd-jobbers who seek to neutralise and th wart the negotiations between Sir George Grey and Tawhiao, and he has been compelled to retire further back into the country, in order to rid himself of the disagreeable importunities and petty

intrigues of liis Pakeha tormentors. Our contemporary the Herald, unfortunately, permitted itself to be made the tool of the ring, anil gave publication to misrepresentations which were designed to create dissentions between the Ngalimaniapotos and the Waikatos. Tiiese misrepresentations, however, have been brought under llewi’s notice, and hence his letter in another column. Tire following is a translation of the letter referred to, and was received by W. 11. Grace, Esq., Private Secretary to the Hon the Native Minister, from Manga, or Eewi, the principal chief of Ngatimaniapoto, The envelope which contained the letter bore Pewi’s seal : Te Kuiti, May 17th, 1878. To Mr Grace : I have received your letter ; j'our word which finds fault with the newspaper is correct. I am also much grieved at the deceitful works that arc be ing carried on, during the days of the interviews between Tawiiiao and Sir George Grey, who are trying to arrange matters between the Maori people. Sir George Grey says let them (the two races), be under one arrangement (law.) Friend, Mr Grace, the words of the newspaper are bad. They endeavour to separate Tawiiiao and Sir George Grey. Friend, Mr Sheehan, make right those words which are true, and contradict those words which are untrue. Sufficient from (Signed) Manga.