Surveying at Parihaka.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3561, 26 May 1880, Page 3

Surveying at Parihaka.

The Native Minister received a telegram at Wellington on Saturday from Major Eoberts, giving an account of'the progress made in running the survey lines through the Parihaka country preparatory to the formation of a road. He states that he and Mr Hursthouse, with an escort of a strong body of constabulary, have cut a survey line to a point south of both roads from the seacoast to Paribaka, and crossing the two roads on tbeway. Major Eoberts reports that he found large numbers of natives settled along the edge of Parihaka main bush, just outeide the. bush, and about three miles from the coast. The natives settled there gave him and party a hearty welcome, and received them with much friendliness, shaking hands, and expressing a most friendly feeling. A few held aloof, and simply took no notice at all, but those were a very small minority. The survey line has now approached within four miles of the southern line, and the two are expected to meet on Monday. Meanwhile, the southern constabulary camp was shifted yesterday to Witiora, experiencing no difficulty in the " Flitting." A site for the new northern camp, as I telegraphed on Thursday, will be shifted on Tuesday, has been selected on the bank of the Waitaka stream, nearly due west of Parihaka, and almost in direct line between that place and Ikaroa, barely five miles distant from the new southern camp at Witiora. The present plan is to finally shift both camps about the lßt prox., when the two bodies of constabulary will unite.—Herald correspondent ■