TITOKOWARU'S PACIFIC' COUNSEL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 10 November 1882, Page 2

TITOKOWARU'S PACIFIC ' COUNSEL.

„ _/. ■■:.. .■ ■■ ♦ ; — ,-.;,.■; .■•■- ••; .. (per united press,- association.) i ' •, ' :; ■ ■'■■! ■ '; - HfWERA.iNbV.'S;': ,The occasion of -Tapa te Waerq visiting Okaiawato to 'present .Titokowaru with a canoe,' was utilised by the latter chief for tho purpose of addressing a -few words pf instruction and admonition to his tribe. The natives . had been informed of the intention of the, Govern^' mant to lease the remaining portion' of the Continuous Reserve, and doubtless there were many who raised a murmur at the prospect. Titokowaru ' t6ld 'his people that they were in no ' way to, resist. whatever the Government chose to do.; that, although the survey lines were, taken through their standing crops' and encroached upon tHeir" dwelling places, they were to be quiescent. The nest subject upon which he addressed them was the stock running ou tho reterve. lie told them to be very careful how they caught and sold horses, and, in catching a borse, to make perfectly sure that the beast was their own, and although it might be unbranded they must recolleot that it might probably be the property of their pakeha neighbours, and consequently great care must'be usod for that ; and though they had suffered loss through their horses having been stolen by Europeans, they must not retaliate ju kind. The address was a general ' recommendation for all to remain quiet and orderly, and, in conclusion he rebuked those among the people who, , to make themselves big in the eyes of their European neighbours, wero in the habit of boasting that they were tho owners of such and such a piece of land.