OPUNAKE.
Tuesday. Mr James Mackay and Captain Blake left here for Parihaka to-day with the object of talking over the difficulty with Te Whiti, as they yesterday did with Titokowaru with good effect.
The question ©f reserves, which has hitherto been neglected, appears to be the very heart of the question at issue.
This place is absolutely defenceless. There are nire men., a sergeant, captain, and major, but for all practical purposes it is felt there might as well be none. The reinforcements are slill at Patea. All the Maoris I meet ask me how many the Government intend sending here.
The Major Whitmore and Ngatiporou story has travelled along the coast. A new "amp is being formed at the Bay and the head quarters of the A.C. are to be shifted there from the position now occupied between this township and Parihaka.
There is, however, more alarm felt South, from the few straggling copies of Southeu papers that, come here, than is felt here, where, if an outbreak occurred, the evil results would at once be felt.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3158, 2 April 1879, Page 2
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182OPUNAKE. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3158, 2 April 1879, Page 2
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