NATIVE AFFAIRS.
[Bv Telegraph.] Wellington, Sept. 21. Forty-six Natives came down to-day to fence across the Constabulary road opposite Barihaka. Only about a dozen were men. Iho remainder being mere boys. They were turned off. as usual. The Government have caused To Whiti and Tohu to be informed of (he result of yesterday's (rial of Maori fencers, who were sentenced to two years imprisonment. This completely disposed of Te Whiti's prophecy that the natives never would be tried or sentenced. It is intended to arrest all adults in (lie next hatch of fencers lie sends down after receiving this notice, and it is thought, that this will be the last act of the fencing farce. It boys are sent they will simply be ducked or birched, and' sent homo again. The new lighthouse at Cape Egmonl is being so constructed as not only to be impregnable to all attacks, unless artillery is employed, hut also to form a very strong defensive work as the base of military operations on the West Coast, should this ever ho required for the purpose, for which its commanding situation particularly Jits it.—“ Times” correspondent.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2348, 25 September 1880, Page 3
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190NATIVE AFFAIRS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2348, 25 September 1880, Page 3
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