TAWHIAO'S MEETING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 18 May 1882, Page 2

TAWHIAO'S MEETING.

A£exandka, May 17. To-day's meeting commenced about 11 o'clock. Talwhiao came on the ground vejy drunk and lay among the people, After tlje iapso pf a few.ipinutes Paul of Qrakei at spßjo.-|engt|) to the state of Tawhiao, saying-that on account of jthe sanje nothing coyldbe done that dj),y, T.eWheoro follow,edf and admitted |the uf}B,ej?!#ly pfyljings, and reproached the chiefj.of tjje poijpie for setting ail example of : drunkenness |nst,ead of entooyina to; suppress the same. He hoped all the people,'including Hty Bush, the Government representative, would assist him in- , bringing matters before Parliament, so that a settlement mi >ht be arrived at, Wahanui spoke at length, advocating the establishment of a Press. Tawhiao, wto.duringjhe meeting was iyiflg ipapablj? On the gronnd, got on his feet aboift 1.30 o'olQek; 'delivered a rambling apeecl; the pjirport ofwljiolpvna that if the present administration ot the Parliament sras,#B good as Sjir Donald Moieaft'a saßi';lie would go wjth it! in what if did. Sp : nfao adyopated the establishment of a press. j

this day. In the wardens court yesterday IMr Seddon M.H.R, pleaded'jn the oasei on behalf of defendants if}, addition to the verdict for plaintiffs' The warden allowed the plaintiff expenses, Seddon ejaculated " I expected as much." The Warden held this to be contempt of court, and inflicted a' fine of £l. Seddon refused to payjthe fine, and would have gone to gaol, but some friends paid the fine against and he waa discharged, ' I