THE OPPOSITION BURLESQUE OF THE KAIPIHA MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 635, 15 June 1876, Page 2

THE OPPOSITION BURLESQUE OF THE KAIPIHA MEETING.

Tin: " Herald"" and *' Stir"" are busy propagating faKehold on behalf of Sir Georgo Giey aucl th» Opposition, One day comes •i letter hwn dour v itivo -ciiHjts (<]>'.), giving au iui.ivfiti.uy »-ersiouof what loolc place .it the lutorv.ew between Sir Donnlil and the King, tiuil ihe-i Cv>raes the amusing-cock-and-bull .itory of friend Alley, of O.iiiiemuri, both of wkieh we give bolow m their respective order of appcirancj bfcforo an Auckland public; — ■" Te Kopu, Juno. " To Sir Geor^o Grey, " 0 Father I Sal iit.it io 113 to you and t.» your friends. This is a message to you concerning what took placj at tho viait of Sir Donald McLt\ui to this place. Ho begged Tawhiao to cousewfc to certain ru!&* for him. Tawhiao replied to him this word, That all Waikato should bo returned Ito him. tSir Donald replied, "• I Cciuuofc do Uiat liowover T this* is what he said, that Tawhiio should be appointed to tnive authority over his people aud district. Oh, father 1 Oh, Grey J Tawhiao has already tins power j but what about the land I ltt it be given b.;ck again. Wliat 13 tho j reason tko laud [Waikato] has boeu t jt.iined ? However (as to), your European i agent?, whom the Government people are uoav causing to make u disturbance, take them a-wav ; do not leave them here ! This word was also said to McLean, to keep the European agents from here. He has no right, and that is the jjfeason we thought, 'Let thero be but one agent.' The Maori laws have been issued, and they have proved satisfactory to the present time ; that is the reason Sir Donald saw Tawhiao. If it wero not for tho Maori agent (To Wheoro) we should not have seen him. — This is all ; from your loving fiiends, N"a Wiremu Ivumcte, Na Te JSgakau, Hone JParengarenga. Na Kiwi." Under the heading " The late negotiations in Waikato, — more light !" tho " Herald" of Tuesday says " Mr Henry Alley, of Ilikutaia, who visited tho Kin# country immediately after the Native Minister, sends us the following ; — "Hikiu taia, June 7, 1576. 1 arrived at Alexandra on Wednesday, 31st May. 1 met your reporter ; I advisod him to return with mo to Alexandra, which he did. I got him an inh'oduction to one" of the head chiefs there, and I can certify that his communicdtions to you ate true. Instead of receiving the Native Minister and his party, or sending for him, the King party treated them with the utmost contempt. Thoy presented the Native Minister, by "\v.iy of iubiilt, with an unclean animal called a pi I^. They are well versed in the Old testament ; hence their cue topiggy. Sir, I will give you a little more* news, and le.ive the public to judge whose statements are true lelative to the kingly meeting. Only one old woman shook hands with McLean, and a more degrading meeting on tho poxt of a Colonial Minister [ never heard o£ " If the Native Miakter, or any of liis hirelings, deny this statement,, I challenge them one and nil to meet me before an Auckland public. Or, i£ the Native M— uister will consent to go back to Alcv.uidr», I N\ill he most pleased to meet him ilu'iv, ou ouu O"tiihti,)u, tint is, il tho (J i-

Tcrnor and Sir George Grey will accom'.•jv.ny us as arbitrators. I will guarantee "to" get thorn a meeting I 'Want this consent, too, as soon a.s possible, as I for one, do not believe in the Native Minister's < taihoa policy. My policy is open to the 'countiy and go ahead. "The gist of what took place with myself is as follows :— I was invited to go tip to the meeting 1 by a chief and a half-caste friend of mine. 1 sent two telegramsfrom Hamilton on Friday morning. A ane-ssenger arrived from To Kuiti at Alexandra, and accompanied him to Kopna, the first King's settlement. It is about 7<niles from Alexandra, an 4 f was well received. I had a shake hands with the King's si-ter, his brother in-law, and friends. The native Minister's offers wore freely talked over, which, as near as 1 can recollect, I gi-vo for tho benefit of the 'public. He offered to give back half Wai. kato ', to fettle £5,000 a year on the King , to give him a bonus of. £10,000 ; to build him a palace ; and give him full dominion •over his own territory. In reply, Tawvhiao told Sir Donald McLean thai he did .not keep his word. At a former meeting 4he Native Minister promised his Majesty ■that he would ndt allow any land to be .purchased between tho Thames and Cambridge, 'Which promise he (tho Native Minister) had broken. He also asked for '"Waikato to be given back from Mercer tup ; and everything else was subordinate Ko tine VVaikato being returned. " Nuku, the murderer of poor Todd, was at 'tho meeting, and some of the Native Minister's train shook hands with fhim. " Relative to tho £10,000 tho Native Minister dffet'ed, I said it was preposterous to make such an offer at tho present, tho funds of the General Government were exhausted, and the words repeated to me were these : — The Native Minister said, • I have £10,000 at a Bank in Auckland I will give you.' Tho King, how - ever, .refused overy offer, for fear ho would himself with the Government. "Was ever insult more complete ? I leave i- the public to judge."