OPUNAKE.
This day. The following message was received he.c last night from James Mackay at Parihaka:—" To Whiti and all the natives here received us very well. We are having a quiet discussionof the subject; so far no conclusion has been arrived at. We go on with the korero after dinner. I shall remain here to-night and probably to-morrow. The great majority of Maoris deprecate hostilities, but maintain that they can produce ample evidence to prove McLean promised them large reserves on the Plains, and monetary acreage compensation for what was sequestered and sold. They say that Government has put up for sale 16,0C3acres without reserving a single acre for th? natives, and they add—' We might as well be dead as have no land on whiclx to live.' They repa -d all Governments as continuous, and think that faith should be kept with them. The Europeans in the district evince no alarm whatever. Maories and Europeans drink and chaff together at Bartlett's."
The first consignment of Armed Constabulary have arrived here, and they were all, landed on the beach about noon.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3159, 3 April 1879, Page 2
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182OPUNAKE. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3159, 3 April 1879, Page 2
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