KIHIKIHI. May 3rd, 1876.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 617, 4 May 1876, Page 2

KIHIKIHI. May 3rd, 1876.

From whnt I can learn, coi respomlence lms passed betweeu borue of the influential chiefs anxious to briog about a meeting iiml the native minister to arrange tl.a preliminaries of a meeting to be held possibly at Waitomo after the Governor's return from the North. They are anxious to see not only the Governor but their oW friend Makerana, whose personal influence, especially amongst the elder Maoris, is as potent as ever it was. The Governor -ef -course, as the Queen's repfe-" sentative, is the chief figure in the pegeant, but the Maories know as well as w« do that he is but a lay figure after all, and that with the Government, as represented by Sir DouiJd, is the real, power with which tohey have to deal. The King and some of the principal chiefs, among them Hone t* One and Rewi, are at Haatairi, and ki» 6aid are very anxious that tho meeting should be brought about I was talking a few days ago, when at Alexandra,, with a chief of some standing, a professed Kingite, but one favourable to improved social intercourse between tbe two races, but whose name for obvious reasons, Ido not mention, and he assured me that a meeting between the King and the GoTernor and Native minister, if it can be brought about in a cordial manner, may bo productive of much good as paving the way to future good understanding. They quite understand that the Waikato and other confiscated lands are gone for ever and that the Government could not if it would rescoTe them, and the Gover nor is not therefore likely, as heretofore to be m?t with this impossible demand at the outset. I also was informed that Sir George 'Grey has nob been invited by the King to visit him, nor indeed with the recollection of the manner in which, when Governor, he brought trouble into Waikato would his presence bo welcome. From what I can learn much present benefit in not likely to be got from the meeting, bufc *jj va$ 4 Maori frieud not inaptly put it*

the track «moe trodden, the path will soon be m\de clear. # There is little local news m the settlement. -Some good bags wore made on Monday -and again yeiter day, and Friday night's entertainment and dance is being > anxiously looked forward to by the fair sex, a full account -of which yon 'will doubtless receive from your own correspondent in dv© course. What about the railway 1 Is it or is mot a fact that the Government at the present time intend to push it on as far beyond Ohaopo to the frontier as means -will allow 1 We are naturally very anxaonB here to knovr the official intentions, "but must wait, I suppose, *the promised Tice-rega'l and Ministerial visit. — FROM *a Corresponded!.