WANGANUI.
Last-night.
Major Kemp and his-people: Natives matters at Murimutu are unsettled, Major Kemp openly boasts that be has done with the Government, and threatens to burn Moorbouse's home; and turn off the sheep. He prevents wool being packed to Napier. Hemp's influence between Wanganui and Taupo is now paramount solely on account of his hostility to the whites. All the settlements on the lower rirur are deserted by the males, who have gone either to Parihaka or Murimutu.'•.■"'••
i£emp has sent liis fcun to Tawbiao as a present. His attitude is bounceable, and he is routing a feeling of hostility against the whites. The dispute re the boundary now is said on good authority to be a blind. The public-feeling is Tery strong here that Kemp's 1 pay as a Government officer should at once cease, and that he should be called upon to answer for his seditious conduct. . Opinions upon tae Situation, The old residents on the river: say they do not like to notice the wide breach now between the natives and the pakeha.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3482, 21 February 1880, Page 2
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177WANGANUI. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3482, 21 February 1880, Page 2
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