AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4422, 7 March 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

The Government intend moving immediately in the direction of securing the necessary laad endowment from the Eotorua natives for railway purposes; whether or not they will succeed in this direction remains to be seen. Several of the tribe? have signified their strong disapproval of the Government interference with lands outside the township block, and it will likely prove a matter of extreme difficulty to conciliate them, so bitter are they against the extensive locking up of lancf.

The Herald's correspondent wires that the Government have decided to release Te Whiti and Tohu. It has been gathered from frequent conversations with them and their friends, and from generally testing their ideas, that they are thoroughly convinced of the futility of offering any farther resistance to the progress of European settlement and the establishment of law and order in the country ; the Government are satisfied now, that no risk will be run by liberating the captives and that this step, if taken at the present j Tincture, and under the changed circumstances as regards relations between the Govern* ment and the natives, will produce an excellent effect. Some farther important intelligence respecting native matters may be expected at no distant date.

(Pee Pbess Association.)