AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3816, 22 March 1881, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Arrived : ship Sydenham, from London, with one-hundred passengers all well. The Orakei Parliament. At tho Orakei Maori Parliament yesterday, Paul repeated that be thought the doings of Te Whiti would eventually do them good. He ended his address by saying that his desire was not to make war, but rather to bring the grievances of the natives before the House of Bepresentatives at Wellington. A proposal was made to send Representatives to England, but finally a motion by Mete Kingi to let it rest with the Chairman was carried. * Complaint was made by a Waikato chief that the Government had taken his lands, though he remained loyal. The meeting carried a resolution condemning the conduct of the government in confiscating the lands of loyal natives. The fifth item referred to fisheries aud pipibanks, but a letter being read assuring all present the matter was now in Judge Fenton's hands it was passed over. The sixth item was in reference to Land Courts, and it was resolved that native meetings should first be held and their sales sent to the Native Lands Court. The seventh item was in reference to Maori members, and it was unanimously agreed that they did more harm than good, and ought not to be sent to Wellington. The Chairman in passing the next item said, " we are passing this motion to cease selling lands, and before long we shall want to sell, then what are we to do ? I say let anyone sell what he thinks proper." (Carried unanimously.) There are 150 natives now present.