MAKETU.
Thursday.
A party of natives from Rotorua came here today, and having quietly occupied an old redoubt commanding the settlement, performed a war dance on the parapet, and discharged a volley of blank cartridges. The Europeans treat the event with great composure, believing the demonstration to be a device of a few of the Arawa to frig Hen the Ngatipikios and other hapus from, going on with fie Coutt now being held here under Ju-ige Heale. The Ngatipikios do not intend to take any action against these disturbers of the peace, knowing that they could, if they chose, speedily wipe them out. They have left the matter for-the authorities to settle, and intend proceeding quietly with their claims before the Court. These Rotorua men have no interest in the lands under investigation, but they rely on the old flour and sugar policy to be exercised on tbeir behalf —a remote contingency, everybody hopes.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2905, 7 June 1878, Page 2
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154MAKETU. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2905, 7 June 1878, Page 2
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