WAIMATE PLAINS.

Patea Mail, 27 July 1880, Page 3

WAIMATE PLAINS.

‘ [FROM our correspondent.] Hawera, Monday. ■ There is nothing new from the camps since my last letter. IfcT's reported that arrests arc going on daily and are likely to do. The followers of Te Whiti about hero say they intend going up and having a spell at the <f ties up,” and seem quite to understand, that they will be arrested and forwarded to Wellington or Dunedin, declaring Tc Wbiti to be all right arid kapai; : The surveys oh the . Plains are ' being pushed on vigorously; Mr Finnerty and-his paity, who until last week were working up the Mountain Road, took up their camp, oh the other side of the river on Friday. • It-is understood that the Government have determined to put .a block of the Plains in .the market at once, but whether they Will ; nowpalter their minds is not dcuowii, but it is hoped for the sake of the permanent’ prosperity of the district : and settlement of the. question they will still adhere to their good resolution;

REMO VAL OF PRISONERS. ( Telegram from our Correspondent.) New Plymouth, Saturday. The s.s. Hinomoa is at Opunaki, with armed constables on board, to convey the Maori fencing prisoners to Wellington or to Christchurch, I cannot learn which. Ten prisoners had been brought in, eight in the first batch, and two in the next. Four more fencers were brought hi yesterday, making a total of 14. The prisoners seem quite content with their position, and are. not at all dismayed, but rather the reverse, at the prospect of an excursion on board ship.