PIAKO. May l3th.
The action of .centain parties who visLtedthis district for sport, and were guilty of wanton acts of aggression on the property of the natives, to which I alluded in a former letter, has 2ed, as I expected it would, to reprisals on the part of the natives. The chief Tarapipipi has sonified his intention ef summarily .dealing with all visitors indiscriminately arriving on Bportini»- expeditions. Their guns will bo taken frwm -them and their boats drawn up high and diy inland, and they will be turned adrift to get home the best way they can. This is what raay be called taking the law into their own hands, and sharply too, bat it i* scarcely to be wondered at after what lias occurred. Contain tneau whites have been in the district duck and winter fowl shooting, but Lave wantonly shot pigs and even horses belonging 'to the Maori owners of tho land. It is hard that real sportsmen should have to suffer for the acts of these yagabauds, but SO it is. — OQMMUNKJATKD.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 622, 16 May 1876, Page 2
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176PIAKO. May l3th. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 622, 16 May 1876, Page 2
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