Waimate Plains.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 540, 1 July 1880, Page 2

Waimate Plains.

[F ROM OUR CO K K IiSPOND K N T.] Tlawera, Wednesday. I ms lie vis it is the intention of the Government, during the present week, to put a staff of surveyors on the Plains to re-survey where necessary the old block, and also to see if the old survey requires re-pegging. Mr Humphries, the chief surveyor, is down, and is making all necessary arrangements. A detachment of A, C.’s will be stationed on the Plains, I suppose in order that, should the natives be again so rash as to attempt to remove the surveyors, they will have to meet a more formidable foe than the few hands they did when last removing them. This Tc-survcy is no doubt a good and popular stop, and the only regret is that it has not been done long since, for there is little doubt that, until the Maoris arc fully convinced that we mean to occupy these lands In earnest, they will continue to act ns if they believed we cannot do it. There is a growing feeling here that the natives have been allowed too much of their own way since their attempted rebellion last year, and that in the Commission award they should have been made to pay for the enormous expeiisc that the colony has been put to through this act of theirs. Everybody hereabout wishes to sec the land put in the market, and occupied by bona fide settlers; and lot us sec what the Maoris will say then. This policy has been too long delayed already. There are plenty of good men ready and willing to take up the lands who would risk any ordinary danger in doing so. Mr Parris returned from the Plains last Saturday.