CAMBRIDGE.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3199, 21 May 1879, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE.

(FBOM OTTB OWK OOBBESPONDIiNT).

Tuesday. After the despatch of my last telegram from Kihikihi, Mr Sheehan, Manga, Mr Lewis and others went across to the parade or exercise ground from the township with the cavalry, and Manga, after seeing the evolutions of the force, complimented them on their efficiency, and told them that he could see his position in the present time and the relationship in which he stood to the Europeans and the present Government. He said you can see your enemy face to face and see my presence as an omen of better things. Mr Grace interpreted for the old man—Eewi, who is close on 70 years of age, soft spoken as a child, firm as a man conscious of his rights—a man neither to beguile or be beguiled, and they cheered the old veteran lustily. He came here with Mr Sheehan and party to see that the land was being passed through the Court, as he ia a bigger land owner in Ngatiraukawa than in Ngatimaniapoto. . : The Ministerial party arrived, here at 5 p.m. and were lustily cheered. Manga does not wish the basis of the agreement with Mr Sheehan to be known, but matters of this sort shall be for public information. A great crowd of Maoris are here waiting for the meeting of the Land j Court and the presence of Mackay. The Auckland land ring are he..'c well represented. Cambridge is full to repletion. It is uncertain the date of the departure of Manga, who is to have no mana over territory Crown granted to Hapus, or Iwis, only a general superintendence over the interests of his people and any assertion to the contray, is erroneous.