TERMS OFFERED TO TITO KOWARU.
"We have been informed that the Civil Commissioner has at last been authorised by the Government to offer terms to Tito Kowaru. We cannot state definitely the exact nature of the instructions. One condition is that his people are to give up their arms, and forfeit their laud, but they will be allowed a block to settle on. These conditions Tito ought to be glad to accept; they are lenient, but we know of no middle course between this and commencing a disastrous war. Peace is intelligible aud so is fighting, but a semi-state of existence —neither peace nor war—is as unintelligible as it is unsatisfactory to the settler. When the terms were made known to Tito he did not reply, but wished to have a meeting of Maoris and Europeans to talk matters over. To this tho Civil Commissioner would not assent, stating that it was for the Government to decide matters of this nature, aud not meetings of natives and Europeans. From another source we hear that Tito observed, subsequently, that he would give up old and young men, but not his guns.—" Taranaki Herald," i Jan. 27
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 923, 6 February 1872, Page 3
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195TERMS OFFERED TO TITO KOWARU. Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 923, 6 February 1872, Page 3
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