HAWERA.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3154, 28 March 1879, Page 2

HAWERA.

Thursday. The own correspondent of the Press Agency say*:—From all I can gather from every source of native information, nothing can be done till Mr Sheehan comes buck. The natives will deal with no other. I think the.natlves do not wish for a war; but ihey s;.y it is only Mr Sheehan who can g've them peace, and I believe his presencs here is absolutely necessary for the preservation of peace in this district. I saw S^andish W^son and Whareaita to-day, and we went to the Plains. The situation is tbis : All the surveyors were courteously carted off the Plains, but only boys were employed in the carting business. Some of the chiefs appeared. Wheraia told me that if the surveyors came back they would be carted of twenty times, but that the orders were that not a drop of blood should be ehcd until the pakeha became the aggic.isor. Some New Plymouth people told me that for their part they would settle the question by the strong hand and wipe out these Parihaka natives, but Mr Wilson has a different idea. He would make roads through all the confiscated lands, and trust to contingencies. Many people in the district would like no bet.or fun or employment than a Maori war, but there is a strong section which deprecates hostilities. The removal of the surveyors, so far as we can gather, simply means a protest on the pt*rt of the Maoris against the legality of the confiscation, and they tell me they will continue to remove surveyors even if it b<* a dozen times, but will do nothing moie than ibis, and protest against the confisca;ion. Meanwhile the survey people are all at the bridge.