TAURANGA.
This day. Mr Vesey Stewart lias written to the Bay of Plenty Times a letter charging its Auckland correspondent - with making a false statement and casting libel on the Xatikati settlers in the telegrams forwarded to the Times re nonfulfilment of conditions by seventeen families. The editor appends a stroug foot note, Tin.
dicating its Auckland correspondent, and giving the names of the seventeen persons alluded to. Also points out that Mr Vesey Steward himself is not on his land, having built elsewhere, and ends by saying that if the Waste Lands Board carry out the letter of the agreement Mr Yesey Stewart with the others stand a fair chance of being disqualified.
Native constables here have been sent back to work on the Oropi bush road.
The Times in noticing the rumour of the contemplated removal of pilots from certain ports urges the claims of Tauranga as requiring for ships of war and southern steamers a pilot.
The Sapphire is expected at the middle of March.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2536, 21 February 1877, Page 2
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168TAURANGA. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2536, 21 February 1877, Page 2
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