WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3786, 15 February 1881, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day More Maori Obstruction.

Another act of aggression is reported from Tikitiki on the Patea road. Eenata's people are again the aggressors. Mr Kennedy was surveying the land for the Government on Donnelly and Hiraka's station, when a party of thirteen men and six women of Eenata's hapu came up without giving any warning to the surveyors, went to their homestead, ransacked it, and finding nothing there went to Kennedy's tents, seized the surveyors' instruments, books, and blankets. Mr Kennedy sent a Maori messenger to Heraka, but Eenata's party met the man, stripped and maltreated him and sent him back. Mr Kennedy then came to town and reported the matter. Destructive Fire.

A fire, resulting in some hundreds of pounds worth of damage, occurred at Ongaga on Friday morning. A threshing machine, owned by Bridge, was at work on five stacks of oats belonging to Col. Herrick. The fire commenced in the furthermost stack. The flames spread quickly, and five stacks, threshing machine, and elevator were totally destroyed. The oats, valued at £200, were insured for £70 in the National, and the threshing machine for £200 in the North British Office.

The body of a man, name unknown, was found in the Mangana Creek, near Pohui.

The charges against the female attendants at the asylam for ill-treating a patient have been adjourned until after the enquiry has been made into the conduct of the whole staff by the commissioner recently appointed by the Government.

An attempt will be made to float a Company for the purpose of thoroughly prospecting the districts where rich quartz has been found.