[PRESS ASSOCIATION] NAPIER, Yesterday.
TOPIA ON THE MURIMCTU E.MBKOGLIO. At the conclusion of the parade of Engineer Volunteers this evening, Major Topia, chief of the Tuharatoa (Murimutu) natives, addressed the corps, saying that, as they had been aware, there had oeen a dispute. It was a purely intertribal affair, and was not in any way aimed at the Government or the European settlers, whose rights would be respected. The affair might have been more serious had not the Government stepped in and undertaken to settle the dispute, and he (Topia) hoped that they would be successsful, and he and his people would render every assistance possible. When Mr Harding's fencers returned to work this morning, 100 natives were found drawn up along- the line of the fence to prevent its erection. He telegraphed to Major Sculley for police assistance, but Major Sculley refused to give it pending Mr Hamlin'a report to the Government, a8 he is making an enquiry into the dispute. Both sides ihus agree to await the report. The police are inquiring into the re moval of the sand-bags from the rifl range, and prove that they were taken by the Maori children for tho sako of the lead in them.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1196, 26 February 1880, Page 3
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203[PRESS ASSOCIATION] NAPIER, Yesterday. Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1196, 26 February 1880, Page 3
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