MAORIS' TREATY RIGHTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 8 May 1907, Page 2

MAORIS' TREATY RIGHTS.

l'er Press Association. Aucktiud, May 7.

The proceedings at the .Maori meeting al W.iahi are oliaractorised by intense oiiru-.'siuess. The Arawas, after dcliberaling, resolved thai they were in complete aen.rd with the descendants of Arawa and 'lainui l-'.ast, and should unite lo obhiiii full i Ceng nit ion of the .Miiori rights according lo the Treaty of Wuitimgi. •Mr. Kailiiiu, J1.11.K., expressed bis gravilieation, mid said he was entirely in aeeord with Hie union, but said if Messrs. Xgata, lleke, or I'arata would not. a<-. ipiKscc. the union would not eventuate.

Tin-: ahawan' position

l'er Press Association. Auckland, .May 7.

.Mr, Williams lingers, a leading member ul the Araua tribe, who h;is arrived in Aiieklainl, has given a Herald repnric,a statement of the part the A raw-as are taking in the Wtinlii meeting Mr. .lingers asserts emphatically that the Arawas have no grievance whatever agaiusl tluOovcrninenl. and were present al the gathering for lit;' jmrpusc of tlx I rt-ai v of lo i!i.uiJily of tln* srntffilial trim's, ami to .nlvanccs will) the o)>jirt of restoring Iriendship between tile Arawa and Waikatn tribes. The hitter end had been achieved. "1 like to e:ill a spado a spade,'' said Mr. lingers, "and I say this meeting is a farce, and nothing more, unless f add licit it is also merely a feast." The Arawas conceded that tlie real aim of the meeting is to bring nil the .Maoris under the authority of Maluila, but to this the Arawas distinctly object. If the meeting decides to send a deputation to England, the Arawas will take no part in it. "lint tliey won't do that," concluded -Ml-. Kogers; '-it is all talk."

Later. At the Maori meeting at Waahi today, Henare Kaihau, in again sneaking of the necessitw of union, said that the other representatives of natives in Parliament did not support him, and, until I hey came into line, (here could be no complete union of Maoris. In regard to their interests, pulling up the stick (representing himself) and throwing it on the ground with dramatic fervor, lie. threw it on the ground, exclaiming that by himself alone he was as useless as that stake. Mr. Rawhiti desired to report progress until reports of the various tribes were handed in. Mr. E. Morgan agreed with him. Business concluded" at 4-..30 p.m. A great many natives .have left for their homes, their places being taken by new arrivals, who arc not so numerous as departures. Neither rowdyism nor lari'ikinisni prevails.