NATIVE AFFRAY AT WHERE PAPA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 671, 7 September 1876, Page 2

NATIVE AFFRAY AT WHERE PAPA.

Thk particulars are just to hand of another Maori squabble, with somewhjtt serious results about a plantation at Where-papa, which has led, probably to tbw death of one, and th« narrow escape of another naf ivo. It seems that a Maori namrd lleweti cleared h piece of ground for wheat and that another man named To Koine sowed oats on it. Rewiti, notwithstanding, still Howed the ttbpat, l)iir rn<>i t^)ti outs. While ho

was covering tli» !>»•'!, To Iviinin came 'forward oncvilinjf a spiide h^himl liitn, with wluuh lift twico s'rtick Rowiti on tbo hajfc of the he.i'l, lulling him to the o.irth. A native named Note who smv the n«sau!t, rau ami took hold of Ta Kuruc and gave him a severe bcuting. Aft<3r gutting away from TToie thewould-bo uiurdorei- went straightway to his " whare" and brining ont n loaded gun fliiappod it at ITote, who thereupon, bffxi-e ha could place Another cup upon th« nipple, stiz.'d him again and a desperate struggle ensued, Tfhich reiulted in To K!umo being tied up by tho rest of the natives. Tho woituded man, llewiti, it, w« loam, not expected to lire, and tho King, Tawhiao, Ivivin^ been cornnmnicated with his ordered tho porpetmtor of the oiitrag.i tojbe neut to liitn at Hiknrangi, whero he was taken on Monday, much a^stinst tho wishes of tho Ng^liliau.i portion of tho natives, who vri«.li<nl him handed over to Te ltaihi and tho European police. liowiti is • brothoivin-law of Hote, and Hote is a son of tho Uto William Thompson. If Itewjti dies and the murderer goes unpunished, the affair will h*ve the effect of causiug still further o^trangetivw-t than already exists between tho King :itid his adherents on tho Upper Thames. Tho attempt, too, to shoot William Thompson's son, tho head chief of N^atilia la, is almost as bad in the eyes of tho Maoris, as tho d»-ed would have beon, if successful, and although To Kutno ia of the Bamo tribe, half Ngatihuua,'half Ngatikahukura, tho interference of the King, should it lead to tho escape of tho aggressor from punishment, will be looked upon us an insult to their tribe not to be tamely Ruhiultted to.