WAIMATE PLAINS.
FOR TY-T WO PRISONERS. ( Telegram from a Correspondent .) Constabulary Camp, Pukchinau, Wednesday. Four more Maoris were arrested this morning for fencing across the road. Arrests have been made each day this week ; and 42 prisoners have been taken since the fencing began ten days ago. We do not know where this game of fencing across the new road will end. One of the men arrested to-day is known to be the same Maori who threatened violence to a sturdy old Highlander settled near Hawera, named Cameron, because he would not abandon his station during the Normanby ploughing last spring. You will remember that Cameron had to “ cave in,” like other settlers, and leave his place to save his life. fKROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.j Hawera, Wednesday. Nothing of any startling nature has been reported during the last few days. Arrests arc still going on at an average of about 10 a-day. Ten were taken yesterday. The native women seem very dow-hcartod at losing their husbands and brothers, and believe they look with anything but a friendly eye on the A.C.’s —although it used to be quite the reverse. The weather is very bad fov the surveyors, as their work at present is all outdoor ; such as re-cutting the old lines and putting in new pegs whore the old ones have been knocked out.
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Patea Mail, 29 July 1880, Page 3
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