NEW PLYMOUTH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3218, 12 June 1879, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH.

Last night. ! The Situation in New Plymouth.: Settlers Thoroughly Aroused,, , and Determininod, to end. the' Native Difficulty on the West. ( Coast.,;. ', , ,' ,' ; The Government to to Called upon to Occupy'the Waimato Plains: 70 Cavalry-men were sworn in at , Carlyle, and the settlers at several of tho little townships about h«re are banding together for tho mutual protection and defence of their homes. They seem to have thoroughly settled down to the wo. rk. The volunteering spirit is thoroughly .aroused, and driving and drilling is the*

'order of tho day. ] There .is a determined spirit amongiti ■ the settlers that tho reigning anxiety and ' suspense should bo put an end to. They feel that all this has be eu occasioned by I the aggressive acts instigated by Ts, Whiti; that advantage should betaken, by the Government to jut au;end to the! native difficulty on this- eoasti— as, if the] Government now give way toHhe natives,! who are at present iulkaidated , and allow

the volunteering bo thoroughly aroused I to dio out, there will be a good deal of difficulty experienced in attempting to re->j vivo it at some, future time. i There is; a strong feeling that Itiroki i should bej delivered up, and that the Government 'should insist upon it, and i failing that that Te Whiti, who has been the main cause of the trouble,' should be ' j apprehended, and that the Parihaka den | of outlaws and malcontents should be broken up and scattered. It: is not considered necessary that 1 there should be any hurried:action in the matter, but that the Government should let it be unmistakoably known thati they are prepare_dio;se ro sthis carried out. i

If Volunteers are wanted t for this purpose' numbers'will !be fotV&jp&i/ngV ])&» it is firmly' believed thVre can bo no material; guarantee, for the;peaoo of;the of the coast until Parihaka is rooted font and the plains occupied, and the principle thatitheland shouldpay the' cbst stribtly enforced. ""^'"V

j,., The suspension of farnji^gs operations ■ consequent to ; the r present istate of! insecurity has already thrown nnmbers of working men out of employmennt, and the Il§fß;^9 -fsft|M|-ifijtb{no, crops to -reap at Ihe harvest time will be very great.

A correspondent of the Herald sends the following! <■ iipW iaflfcirs *W ' tnV> f tfls't Coast:- AS. ■ *-*-

4i l#ttrajlftw # c? making into the position of the land which the natives ure now; ploughing, I find that there are' complications which separate it from .the.case of confiscated land, and that the natives have some additipnaj claims, fwhich,?int»t v;be ■ cpnsidered before we tiike any farther steps, iOe at all events before we sjioot them. The Oakura land was given to military setUer», i|! being crtran into^a/farf ore sectfoWpHrKeh '/b>W* gratify 74 feen aggregated intalayKer' farms. T The land was within dnep^tb^coij'fiscated blocks, but it belonged'to friendly natives as well n^T,**, 1 Patches berfl. t^na: tpf^ejiJt ifas jt^t^M^nij^ireslii^grfilajmf, and who had not been, in rebellion, should receive, :ts compensation ; fot the land of which>they;had been, deprived inOaknra, 1250' acr*B; within' the block, ahd 3600 acres on the Kaitake and Rttukairarißes'. The nativesi who had not been in rebellion signed aid6butnettt'cbn«etfc:ngri td/thif arrangement^ Thii JWa*;'dbnlß!inirffly,? 186(3. Howeverf ■tf6"!tit^(h«ii»;' i-et^bpctt'glM^o f»ny portibnbf^ this; land, iMd tiaiives Wem to be unde^nf iypr^s^tkf, after agreeing to give up Oakura they^jare (not; to prefeiv;« r|an^|t&tngj |t ■fell, either within the block O r without it. iThe'i ip^inoipal^Hmen^^ar^'l Bob Erangi, Himiona,™-and Wi Kamohamo, "*t?wo ' W t tHes¥ f 4nM> 1 v|n plbiighing {operialro^s^^'THds'e'.^'who. were iii' rebellion; apd who" owned'! land^ 'within the Oakura blbckT!«e »6 fw):lmn*g M at Parihaka, ; ,Ther> are T l6O r pf them. Some of them ate{concerned in the plough<ingi; including"Tuk'iido]JljThe land nowj being"ploughed"wai"not""feally"cb"nfi^ land,- but was acguireft by" psfrom Tri#*ncily! natives to complete a connscated block, under a promiie of ooipenßation. Something of the ri circumstances exist understand that the Government has just: beenjraade awarein ; pursuanceqf inquiries! directed by Ministera,to i b,o made. * * |