NATIVE INTELLIGENCE. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1438, 20 September 1881, Page 2

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

New Plymouth, Sunday. Tug native} do not appear to bo acting under any definite instructions from Te Whiti in the matter of erecting fences, and consequently they have made no determined stand against the const.ibularly. They will probably demist from offering any further obstruction to the ooasUbularly until the Parihak.i meeting is o\ or, which commences 10-day. It has been noticed that natives have not proceeded to l'arihaku this month in their customary fashion — vL«., with bullock dr.iys wellloaded with provisions, but the majority of them have travelled on foot. This .shows the Maoris are getting hml up, and cannot make any cannot make the customaiy presents. No diiect information is to hand, but from a reliable source it is said that Te Wlnti's speech to-day is the mo*t specific one he liir ever' delivered There were over 1090 Maori men capable of bearing arrai present at the meeting. Te Whiti is reported to have said — there mis?hfc be twenty thousand pakchas settled on the land, but it would be their sepulchres. Last Night. The Parihaka meeting 1 on Saturday was not of so pacific nature .is previous ones. Both Te Whiti and Tolm spoke in an excited and at times threatening manner. Te White paid every man must drop the pen and take up swords. If pakebas cast stones at them natives were to stone the pakehas, if the Europeans hit them with their fists they were to strike with their fists; if the pakehua' took firearms to fight, the natives were to do the same. Throughout the meeting this kind of talk was indulged in. It may mean nothing, but from the bold insolent front of the natives they appear ready for anything, and it is only Te Whiti's influence that keeps them in subjection. The rebellious spirits are amongst those who have been imprisoned and should never have been allowed to return to Parihaka. OPCtfAKE. Te Whjti in addressing his people ordered that the fight should be continued, meaning the fencing of the confiscated Lands at the Gape, which some Europeans took to mean hostilities. The prophet has along said he was fighting Hard against ' the Government with "Iris tongue, which is his only weapon to Wage War with. ' A new indttstry-*the extensive cultivation of flowers, for perfumery purposes — U about to be started in California; In Europe it is very remunerative. A good crop of lavender will Yield £300 per "acre. As the scholars at Hu.tton, U-rammar School/nearTredtori' (England),' was playing- at cricket recently, a lad, 12 years of age, was struck over the* heart by the ball, and died almost instantaneously. A tforasn French, painter has painted a picture. '01-^&liasi'Maekay, daughter of bonanza Mackay, for the r Paris, this season. She is represented ar a young girl' with fair hair, in a white dress against a blue ground, with a halo around her head. The work is said to remind one of a virgin- on a stained glass window of some old cathedral. "