Our own Correspondent on the Situation in Taranaki.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3221, 16 June 1879, Page 2

Our own Correspondent on the Situation in Taranaki.

[Py Teleghiaph.]

.^EiLi.NaTON r Saturday Eyening. in '.;,| The tone of the; .Wellington andji the Wost Ccast Journal* i»tP force' Oh' war jin,, "tKe^Taraiiakl ;;dwWict^ ! !!TK(B'_ fteregtii|jl]|ic' intelligence coming from the Coast day by da^ becomes mbre exciting, edriseqtiently more ridiculous! FromPateato Waitapa the Bottlers all seem in a state of military ; fotprOji while private advices' from flew Plymouth Assure us that it is dangerous almost there to ; avow oneself a] supporter of the Grey Ministry. They further stht?o .that' thcW is not: (the. ■■lightest chance qf 'any^u/frag 9 'b/iiij* cpnimUttMj ptfthe,Maori side, unless.tUoexcitpdactioll »ofnwort'iettlers may set'thtfiobtiiitryj'int a blaze. Private ;adfices' jlfrbmi!^elialile sour,cte| i | §\so vi state; that i^be,^Qolonfal commercial ... s depression has "Tmpingfed on the Coast,' 'That the settlors having ,sohi,., their , produceand dia-^ buViied' the 'proceeds 1 !6f 'the Sale, con-' isider the waytplend fresh pr^sperjtj P° ,the district is; to locate ,\ a large, body jof Armed Constabulary in the district, apd' by this m«ani obtaia .a; quid prg;quo for,, the 25 per.detit&ofhthe Waimate saljes _giy.en.to,the New Plymouth .Harbou?' Board. The distribution of the A.C. Forco.is singular^ aflherojar^ only thrfee ,whi^e families,, resident between the Waingobgoia 'and 1 ParinkkjL '^amisk, kti Oeo, is r dtie whcf 'lives in' Honb-; j^ari-. • w lUsa*ii' ; ,.''|).u,b|i^lipuse; ''close ''l /to _ Hone's house, and is therefore prbtectecL^byl^is; lan^lprd. .; Eighty miles *fron|^jQfiO [is Opubakd;'"where^Bilrtl^ts 1 and fflim livje. The" former keeps a"public-house and the latter a station, iand to piotect thesre two, force" df )!bvSr fiO^mW iii Bajtipfled4hMe^! > !Qf'c^^r^'if ! *^ ruaniii want to go to Parihat*.' th^y irduld go thel inlanid road,' yonvondrth 1* A.O. would'be none the wiser.<li fwill thus be „settled that the publica,u whp 3 sells grjig to the AiC.y^andriher settler who retails, his beef at Opunake, hare lines given |toi ploughed land .at. Opunake is disputed. -wjl^ottly' bo.through thelojbearancepf thejnativeS|, the West" CoastvaettWjW wauting to clear •inVrnl^ th^ • Coasfj-.jjpo ;tb!afc^li£>y t "toay; 'jiaY,3 , more' r.ooni. ■'/Moffftt.' '4'enies!'-por-*»oaaily la myself-that he! eveij made, #kfpß*jrd»rforM3adris."'''!'-:" '"?;i--: ■<<• ■'->;'« _