NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 82, 13 January 1872, Page 3

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

THE FORTHCOMING (TREAT MEETING.

News from the native districts of Waikato is as satisfactory as that from Ohinemuri. A number of discontented Kanbans in the'Upper Waikato endeavoured to induce Manuliiri to stop the road works between Taupe and Cambridge, but were ordered to desist. Manuliiri seems to lie at least determined not to take active obstructive steps until lie sees the. result of the great native gathering in March. It was intended to hold a meeting at which I’aora, Tuhaere, and that section of the Kaipara natives who are connected with l lie Waikato tribes, prior to the great meeting, hut Rewi has lately intimated to Paul that there is a scarcity of food in (be district, and it will be necessary to postpone the preliminary gathering. Our Alexandra correspondent says “ Manga has not yet received an answer to the invitation sent to his Excellency the Governor, and that lie intends to wait until the 20th instant, when, if he has not, received a reply, he will send another one. Manuliiri endeavoured to persuade him not to do so, saying their crops were a failure, and that there would lie no food for the pakoha. ‘Never mind,’ replied Rewi, ‘ the pnkehas do not want to come here 1o cat. they want to talk; that will be sufficient food for them.’ ” —■/). H.'Crox*.