Affairs at Taranaki, as appear by the latest intelligence received last night, have reached a point when the issue of a single day may mean peace or war to that district. Offers, it will be seen, have been made to the Government by both Ngapuhi and Ngatiraaniapoto of friendly assistance. Meantime, at the scene of disturbance the aggressors have been quietly removed from the land, but are gathering with sullen determination, and with threats of returning in greater force. The colonists evidently are prepared, if the war is forced upon them, to make it a settler's war, and the Government will have no alternative but to support them to the full extent of its power.
At Christchurch the other day, a man was summoned at the Police Court for impounding a horse, and then buying it himself when put up to Auction. He pleaded ignorance of the law, and the Magistrate, after pointing out the Cattle Trespass Ordinance, 1872, which dealt with such cases, dismissed the charge ; the defendant paying the costs, and restoring the horse to the poundkeeper,
A muaderous attack was made by natives at Cambridge on 3aturday evening upon a professional gentlenien, a surveyor, who happened to be in Cambridge that evening. About five o'clock he was in Hewitt's Hotel talking quietly to a Native Chief, when suddenly a Maori stepped forward and aimed a blow at his head. Instinctively he threw up his arm to ward off the blow, and either his hand or that of his Maori aggressor struck another native in the mouth, drawing blood. Immediately there was a rush made at the gentlemen in question. A blow was dealt him in the face, which he returned by knocking down his assailant, but though he kept tho ground clear in front of him,-a blow from behind brought him to his knees. Rising again, he cleared his way to the door, and made for the National-Hotel. Thither, however, he was followed by some halfrmad, drunken Maoris, and though the doors of the room in which he took refuge were olqsed on them, they - ; broke them down, and the .European had to escape by a back window and reached a hayloft, where he remained until a European friend got his horse out and gpt him away safely to it, before the Maoris discovered his place of concealment. It was stated that some one about the" height of, and similariiy attired to the gentleman in question,; had struck a Maori lad in the street, and very likely the natives mistook him for the aggressor, and hence the cause of the assault, when the fact was that he had in no way interfered with them, either at the time of the assault or previously. He suffered somewhat seriously, having been marked in the face, and violently bruised with blows from behind, on the head and body. The gentleman in question has always been on good terms with the natives he has come in contact with, and it is matter for regret that an obvious misapprehension should interfere with the friendly feeling existing between them and himself.
The Annual Meeting of Ratepayers of the Tuhikaramea district will be held on the sth July, in the sohoolhouse, Ngahinipouri, at 2 p.m. Messbs Hunter & Nolan's Cambridge Monthly Cattle Sale will be held on Thursday next.
All accounts for services, labour,' material, or any other claim against the Kirikiriroa Highway Board, must be sent in before 2 p.m. to-morrow, so as to allow the charges to be included in the year to which they belong. Objections to the levels of the approaches to the Hamilton Cart Bridge and of other 'streets advertised in these columns, will be heard on the 3rd July.
Mr J. S. Buokland's Hamilton Horse Sale will take place next Saturday.
There have bean heavy rains down South. In the Canterbury Province, on Iriday last, says a telegram of that date, a vast quantity of rain has fallen lately, and to-day it is pouring. News has already come here of serious floods in the northern rivers, and tidings from the south are anxiously awaited. The Ashley is higher than any flood last year. The men who have been sent to work on the railway extension are in a rather unpleasant predicament, as, owing to the swollen state of the Waipara, no provisions could begot across to them to-day. It is thought they have sufficient to last till to-morrow, when an effort will be made to relieve them, but the heavy rain which is now falling will render it rather difficult.
A Talk With Te Whiti.—The Own Correspondent of the Auckland «Herald' tellegraphing on Thursday says .'—After the meeting at Parihaka was over, I had an interview with Te Whiti. He was very affable, and to converse with me. He explained to me how he became converted, and a prophet. He said when the first war was commenced, Riemenschneider, a missionary at Wairoa, presented him with a large Bible, and told him to hold fast to the good Book, in which he would find all that was good and true and holy. Te Whiti said he read it for a time, without any good resulting. He persevered, and still he was like one foolishly groping his way. At last, like St. Paul, the scales felljfrom his eyes. A great light shone into his mind, and the words of the spirit flowed from his lips like rivers of water, swelled by the raising of the sea. He has gone on in this course of inspiration? until he now believes himself to be Jesus Christ, and that his second advent is nigh at hand. I was speaking with Te Whiti as to whether he intended ordering the men to resume their ploughing, and he said to me it rested with the people themselves whether they went on with the ploughing or not. He said he would not give them any orders to commence with again. If they had finished the piece of ground they had been doing, they could cultivate it. He said the men would not give up possession of the ground they had ploughed,but he made it quite clear (,to me that he (Te Whiti) would not be a party to any further acts of aggression. He assumed the position of one who is expecting a complete revolution of the world, and the question of land is not allowed to trouble his mind. Ho leaves the consideration of these worldly things to the people. The natives seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves at these meetings, eating and drinking. The wet weather, however, prevented the young people dancing, which is their usual custom. They treated the Europeans who were present in a very friendly manner, and appeared pleased to see them present, and were very particular in trying toinstal into the pakeha mind that the Maoris do not intend to fight. <
The HinemoajsaysyesterdayV Herald,' left for the Thames last night with the Hon. J. Sheehan and Mr Lewis, Under Sacretary of the Native Department. The object of the visit is, we understand, to obtain the signatures of a number of Piako natives, who are at present at the Thames, to certain deeds. It is arranged that the Hiuemoa will immediately return to Auckland, and the steamer Glenelg will call at the Thames for the Hon. the Native Minister and take him on to Tauranga, where he has some important business to transact. On Tuesday the Hinemoa will convey His Excellency the Governor and suite and the Hon. Colonel Whitmoreto the Kawau and the Waiwera,' and on Wednesday she will go to Tauranga to take the Native Minister on to Wellington. She will then come back to the Manakau, and take His Excellency, Lady Robinson, and suite, and the Hon. Colonel Whitmore to Wellington, and immediately return again to convey the Northern members to Wellington, to attend the Parliamentary session.
Lease of Hamilton Ferrit.—Yesterday, Messrs J. D. & K. Hill offered for sale, the lease of the tolls at the ferry, at Hamilton, for the remainder of the time that the bridge is in course of construction, providing such period did not exceed one year. The ferry tolls were sold at per month. The bidding was spirited, and they were finally knocked down to Mr R. Land (a former lessee) for the sum of £6B per month, the bid of the -present lessee, £67, being the last preceding one. This is at the rate of £BIB annum, which gives a good prospect for the value of the bridge tolls,
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1092, 24 June 1879, Page 2
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