TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 949, 4 June 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(fbom our own correspondents). Kihikihi, June 3. Thk Maoris have driven off Ross’ cattle, also Toles’. When Rewi was questioned by Taonui why he received money from the Government, he said it was for his paralysed arm. [lt will be remembered that Rewi, some few weeks ago, fell over a precipice into a river, and after out, recovered the use of his arm, whicWiad been paralysed for some considerable period}. And that he had never received any money for rent. The Natives are coming in freely to Punui on their way to Kuiti. Manga is ordered there at once. All Pakeha-Maoris are ordered off. There are numbers of Natives from Hikurangi at Punui, There is to be a fresh lot left there in place of Manga’s tribe. Manga has to hand his Crown grant back ; money, if any received ; and to pay for any fencing that is done across the boundary. The run from which Ross’ cattle have been driven off is situated on the south side of the Punui river. The right of running cattle on .J the Land was secured by Ross in this way : — Rewi’s cattle were in the habit of crossing the river and running on Ross’ land, and Rewi, in order to compensate him, gave him permission to sow down in grass and use a piece of land south of the confiscation boundary line. Ross has always been on the best of terms with Rewi and the Natives, and until the recent meeting at Hikurangi, nothing had occurred te mar the harmony existing between them. Ross deserves the sympathy of every Waikato settler, and each true Colonist. The Waikato Mail says the Maori King movement is again becoming aggressive, and although its aggressiveness has not yet assumed a phase that is calculated to excite alarm, it would be folly to ignore the importance of the intelligence from Kihikihi. The first questions of importance are that the Natives are expelling Europeans across the confiscation boundary and that Tawhiao, or Matutaera, as he was proclaimed at the recent Hikurangi meeting, is coercing Rewi with a view to completely isolating him from European influence and sympathy. It was evident from the report which was published in the Mail, on Wednesday last, of the proceedings at that meeting, that a move has been made in the direction of renewing and consolidating the power and authority of the Maori King, and that he and tne leading promoters of the movement feel themselves sufficiently strong to make another and perhaps final endeavor to stay the invisible march of civilisation, and the progress of settlement. The particulars which were published of the proceedings at Hikurangi, derived their authority from the fact that they were supplied with the express sanction of Rewi te Wahanui, Te Morehu, and other leading chiefs. Briefly stated, the results of the meeting were that the represen-

tatives of several influential tribes, including the Ngatimaru, Ngatipaoa, Ngatimatihera, Ngatiwhanaunga, Ngatimainapoto, and a section of Ngapoti, have formally handed over the control of their lands to the Maori King. That a new “ Auki ” or boundary, has been laid down, within which no lands are to be sold or leased, or roads or railways constructed. That the Kingite newspaper is to be renewed, and that the whole policy of isolation and passive resistance is re-established. Auckland, June 3. At the Haymarket, on Tuesday last, hides brought from 3d to 4fd. the lb. ; sheepskins, Is 2d to 4e 8d each ; greasy wool, 6|d the lb.; tallow, 19s to 23s the cwt. At W. V. Bindon’s bottling establishment a fire broke out last night, but was soon extinguished. Kerosene was found in four places. W. V. and James Bindon have been arrested on the suspicion of incendiarism. At the Greyhound Yards, fodder in full supply ; oaten hay, 3s to 4s ; meadow, 2s 6d to 4s 3d per cwt. Wellington, June 2. The Hinemoa left very quietly last night for Lyttelton to wait there for telegrrphic o-ders. The Stella in like manner has been sent to Hokitika. It was finally decided this morning to release the whole of the Maori < prisoners still detained at Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Hokitika, and instructions were accordingly issued this afternoon that all prisoners should be liberated this evening, and will be conveyed by the Hinemoa and Stella to Taranaki and there landed free men. Dunedin, June 3. The judgment of the Court re the Tararua disaster was that the Captain and {ook-out (Weston) were to blame. The certificates of the first and second officers were returned to them.