HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 442, 9 July 1879, Page 2

HAWERA.

■ (prom ORB own correspondent.) July 4. Me. Rogers in his tetter last week, said 1 charged him with making different statements at Hawera abont the Maori ploughing at Mokoia. Every statement that 1 made was correct, as there were a good many others besides myself present when he made them., I have plenty of proof, and every , one says that he made ten different statements within as many five miautes. The person Mr Rogers speaks of as pointing to the natives and saying that they had drays and ploughs, said up here

that be never said anything of the kind that the only remark ha made was that he bad seen some. Maoris going over the bill on Mr G. Bayly’s property at Mokoia. The rest, no doubt, Mr JRogefs concocted out of his own imagination. He went so far as to say, about one o’clock, that be would bet £1 to £5 that the Maoris was there ploughing-. - The next time Mr Rogers secs or hears of any natives going anywhere, he had better make sure of their destination, as the feeling of the people here, \vben they found out that there was no truth in the'statements he made, was anything but amiable, some saying that he deserved to bo rolled in the mud. July?. An accident occurred at the Waihi Camp on Thursday last, Which nearly resulted in the loss of life. One of the Sergeants was cleaning his revolver, while another young fellow was sitting opposite watching him do it, when one of the chambers accidentally went off, the ball entering the yotmg follows’ face under the jaw, and coining out of his cheek. Mr. Moore was sent for immediately, and pronounced the wound, not very serious. The patienl is now recovering rapidly. Another accident of a serious nature happened to a man named FitzGibbon. went to see the Maoris ploughing at Mr Finlayson’s, but on going up the lane the girth of the saddle broke, and ho rolled on to tiie ground.' The pony commenced ■kicking, and defore be could get away, he was kicked across the cheek, laying it open, also pressing the eye out of the socket. He was placed on a stretcher and carried to Nonnanby, when Dr. Keating was telegraphed for, who arrived and sewed tip the cheek wound. The man is now progressing very favorably, but ho will never have the Use of his eye again. Tito Kiwara has notified to Captain AVilson that there will be no further action on tho part of the Maoris before the -18 th inst., which is the usual monthly meeting day at Parihaka, so we may expect to have •a. little peace for a week or two>