PATEA.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3170, 17 April 1879, Page 2

PATEA.

Wednesday.. The chief Tauroa, who lives with his people about three miles up the Patea river, having read that the Waimate Plains land had been withdrawn from sale with the object of its being returned to Titokowaru and other prominent actors, for several days past have been talking quite freely of claiming Patea, if Titokowaru gets the plains. Tauroa says he himself was compelled by Titokowaru to fight or bejiilled, the only alternative left him during the late war. He is much ercited at the report, but is not altogether displeased, because he considers if the plains natives who started and forced the fighting are entitled to such large compensation in land that his own claim to Patea and land formerly held by him, but which has been confiscated and sold to Europeans, will be undisputed. He expresses his determination to use every endeavour to secure its return to the young men of- the tribe. His land has been taken, and he had to suffer imprisonment at Dunedin with his people. Titokowaru has always been free, and is now being better treated than himself, who has suffered so much by the war.