The Native Meeting at Te Kuiti.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1952, 7 April 1875, Page 2

The Native Meeting at Te Kuiti.

The following telegrams are from yesterday's Cross : — :

Alexandra, Monday, 11.25 a.m. In all probability the articles in the Evening Star are derived from the information furnished by a Thames man, now oh a visit to Moffatt. The truth of the matter is, this is the people's assembly, and consists merely of the tangata kainga, and perhaps two hundred (the Star " special" reporter said 4,000), visitors from Hauraki,. Ngatihaua, Wanganui, Ngairo's people. There is no one from the adjacent settlements, or from the Waikato, or the Coast.

Tawhiao was at Aotea as late as the 2nd instant. His excuse for not being at the meeting was the illness of a child; but it is evident, that he does not think that anything will come of the meeting. The people, too, are all very luke-warm about it.

Tawhiao said while at Hone Te One's that this htu could not be held anywhere but at Te Kuiti, because he had promised the old people; but that the next should be at Kawhia.

Northcroft has returned from Taranaki. He did the distance from Teßipia to Kihikihi in one day. The Kiogites behaved well. The only people who intefered with him were some semikupapa Ngatihauas at Kuiti, who forbade him to cross the river. But when they saw Rewi they absolutely ran away. There has not been any talk yet at Te Kuiti, as all the people are waiting for Tawhiao.

10,40 a.m.

I hare just learned that the Star re* porter has been terribly humbugged anent the nature of the meeting. He was never up there. He was stopped by Rewi at Kopua, where he .stopped about a week with a pakeha Maori, from whom he gleaned his information.

I bare seen Thompson, the half-caste, and he is terribly indignant at the liber* ties taken with his name.

Denis and his wife were in possession of Bewi's locket, and returned it to the owner long singe. Tawhiao is expected to be near here today or tb-morrowi

[fbom another cobbespondent.] 4 pm.

Thompson informs me that the' Star's " special," John Nott, never went further than Kopua, where he stayed with a white man called Thompson, and there Moffatt left him. It is supposed he left for Auckland on Friday