SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Latest

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1094, 28 June 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Latest

PROM THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS.

THE CONSTABULARY STOP

THE PLOUGHING.

NEW PLYMOUTH, last night.

(From a Special Correspondent.)

Major Tuke with a party of Constabulary marched, to Courtney's farm at Oakaura to-day, where the natives are ploughing, aud ordered them off. They replied that their was no law to make them leave, and would not give up their ploughing. Major Thke. ordered his men to take the plough, and unyoke the oxen. The bullocks and plough were then taken to (he constabulary camp. The Maoris remained on the ground. The affair pasaeci off quietly. Information wai brought this morning that Te Whiti has ordered Messrs. Short and GUnieby to leave

Mokau. They ate leaving as soon as a steamer can get there.

A telegram from Wellington states that 200 men are to commence the railway from SfcafFord to N ormanby, the Constabulary to help. MORE PLOUGHING. MANUTAHI, last night. (From a Correspondent.)

The natives have c^ot then ploughs •in readiness to start ploughing on the 'Government reserves, near Bayley's land, and have received orders from Te Whiti to at once commence ploughing Oapt. W ray's paddocks, in the heart of the settlement of Carlylo. The settlers here are prepared to stop them. The natives started ploughing Bayley's laud, at .Makaia, half-way between there and Hawera, this morning. They will be turned off ,at once. An ejectment committee has. been. formed at Hawera. NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. (From a Correspondent.)' The Hawera, correspondent of or the ' Taranaki Herald' telegraps that the Maori's have not returned to-day. I hear that the chief on the 1 plains did not sanction tlie ace of the ploughmen. The Oakura correspondents telegrams state that the natives have again commenced to plough up Courtney's land. The c Herald' commenting on the matter says :— " If anything is calculated to add to the danger and difficuulty of the situation it is the larneritable procseding on the part of the Government, which are a confession of weaknejs and irressolution we were scarcely prepared for from a New Zealand Government. The settlers of Taranaki, or Waikato, of Tautanga, of Poverty Biy, or other native districts where similar acts of aggression may at any moment occur, will not fail to form them selves into committees of public safety, and put down disturbers of the public peace, without reference to organised governments or laws. We trust they will not have occasion to do so, but if the Government acts in those places, as they have done in Hnwera, we do not see what else the settlers can do, if they feel themselves strong enough."

PATEA, Thursday. (From a Correspondent.) The settler3 at a meeting held last evening passed a resolution asking the Government to appoint Major Noake to take permanent command of the district. News was received this morning that a large number of qativea are camped out on the Waingongorp River, within five miles of Hawera. They have bullocks and ploughs with them, and have given notice that they intend to resume ploughing, having received orders from Te Whiti to take no notice of pakehas.