NATIVE AFFAIRS,

Temuka Leader, Issue 807, 29 December 1881, Page 2

NATIVE AFFAIRS,

The Native constablea at Opunake are to receive their discharge and several have intimated their intention of residing there

permanently. The Hawkes Bay Herald: has been authorised to contradict a statement re Te Whiti ordering, through his son,, the return of natiyes to Parihaka. During the visits of the son to hjs father in gaol, the gaoler and an interpreter have always been present, and no conversation has been allowed between the two except referring to family matters. At Pungarehu. and Parapara the Constabulary are engaged in pulling up the potatoes on both sides of the road, on the land sold and on, that reserved. The crops being destroyed are those which, were planted on what was once the, famous w’heat fields where the fencing prisoners were arrested.

During Mr Bryce’s last visit to Parihaka he formally notified to the natives that 20 per cent of the reserves previously set apart for them would be- confiscated by Government in accordance with the terras of the proclamation, as an indemnity for the cost of suppressing the disturbance on the West Coast. He further-cautioned the Parihaka natives that they would risk losing more of the reserves if they did not prevent the return to Parihaka of strangers who. had no legitimate business there. He also int'm.ated that the crops no* belonging to the Parihaka natives would be destroyed,, so that strangers would have no excuse for returning. The Natives now appear to be completely submissive and cowed..