AFTER THE ARREST.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1459, 8 November 1881, Page 2

AFTER THE ARREST.

Wellington, Sunday. A Press Association telegram says : — Government telegrams announce that Mr Hryco lias returned to Pungarohu. Col. Eoberls and the troops are encamped in the neighborhood of Parihaka. By Mr Bryco'a permission, Te Whiti and Tohu, Wore they left, addressed a few words of farewell to the assembled natives, amidst dead silence. Mr Pryce did not press the dispersion of the assembled natives immodiatoly after tlie arrest, as they were naturally in a state of considerable excitement. When the events of the day have soaked into their minds, means will be taken to cause the strangers at Parihaka to withdraw to their own homes, which is now of great importance. Mr Bryce speaks in the highest terms of tho conduct of Colonel Eoberts and the troops. I lie volunteers disti7iguished themselves by their steadiness and manner in which their positions were taken up, and the linos contracted round the asssembled natives showed that the volunteers had been drilled and disciplined to good purpose.

PuxGATiEiiu, Sundiy JNTkhfc. Everything quiet. Troops will' camp for few days at Parihaka and aie conptructing miniature redoubts. The demeanour of Te Whiti and Tohu is very calm, no anger being displayed, and after their arrest Te Whiti by permission of Bryce addressed the natives. He counselled thorn to keep the peace. Hon. Major Atkinson has arrived. A cabinet meeting will be held when probably a pio 'lamation will be issued ordering 1 all strange natives at Paiihaka to disperse to their homes at once. Bryce thanked the forces for thenbehaviour, and said he could not have done without the volunteers. The only case of sickness were thiee pases of epileptic fits among the volunt°ers, caused by the he it. The natives were in meeting all Sunday. They offeied food to the troops, but Bryce df-clined to receive it.