Ohinemuri.
(FBOM A. COBBEBFONDENT.)
Paeboa, July 30. With two or three days' of dreadful noise and sundry nips of rum the Natives have got up their flagstaff on the ground., where the meeting is to be held. .The staff is a fine spar about 65 feet long, and from the top floats a flag. 25 feet long. On the flag is rudely painted a native, .= and a swamp hen with red legs. A few -. old shellbacks would hare;'*? stepped'"::, the flagstaff in half' the time the Maoriei took to do it, but they were all bossing each other and yelling and gesticulating • like madmen. The place in which the potatoes and stores for the " feed" are placed is 70 or 80 feet long. The women are busy making kits. Some pakehas are putting up temporary stores on the ground. The weather is very changeable; yesterday it was blowing a gale; to-day. it is like summer. A number of residents here and at Mackaytown are getting ia crops, fencing, and planting trees. Some confidence is yet felt in the future. I . shall try and attend the meeting and let you hear something of what is done., *
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2052, 2 August 1875, Page 2
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195Ohinemuri. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2052, 2 August 1875, Page 2
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