NATIVE VISITORS.
The Waildtara natives 9 short time back having paid a friendly visit to Titokowarn’s hapn, the .Ngamahine tribe at Okaiawa and Okorima, the latter were persuaded to return the visit, and about thirty of them mounted on horseback with a dray load or two of presents passed through Patea, on their way .today. Tito Kowaru did not accompany them having backed out through fear at the hist moment. He sent as his representative the chief Awauhena and the calvacade was composed mostly of young fellows and contained 5 only three or four wailiines. At Waitptara they.fvill be met by the Ngaranru, Ngatiporua, and Wsmgannis, and this meeting is important as being the first .time Titokowaru’s men have travelled so far south since their bloody mission in 1868. It was in that war that the Patea chief Tauroa stood such a- good friend to us and refused to join the rebels, Tito in consequence threatening to have his head. The bread*, has never, been healed up since, and the Patea natives will not fraternise with the ex-rebels. :
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1003, 28 February 1883, Page 2
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