PATEA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 137, 18 April 1879, Page 2

PATEA.

Wednesday. The chief Tauroa, who lives with his people about three miles up the Patea River, having heard that the Waimate Plains land has been withdrawn from sale with the object of its being returned to Titokowaru and other prominent natives, for several days past has been talking quite freely of claiming Patea, if Titokowaru gets the Plains. Tanroa says he himself was compelled by Titokowaru to fight or be killed, the only alternative left him during the late war. He is much excited at the report, but is not altogether displeased because he considers if the Plains natives, who started and forced the fighting, are now entitled to such large compensation in land, jhat his own claim to Patea "and land formerly held by him, but which has been confiscated and sold to' Europeans, will be undisputed. He expressed his determination to use every endeavor to secure its return to the young men of the tribe. His land has ' been taken, and he had to suffer imprisonment at Dunedin with. his people. Titokowaru has always been free, and is now being better treated than himself, who has suffered so much by the war. .