NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1461, 12 November 1881, Page 2

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Further Important Arrests. Our Auckland correspondent wired on Thursday evening 1:1 :— Intelligence has just been received here that Government has caused Titokwaiu and eleven other chiefs to be arrested, but still the nativen obstinately refuse to disperse. The road through Parihdka has been commenced.

Further Particulars. Our correspondent wires last night :-— At 10 o'clock yesterday morning, Hursthouse and Butler entered Parihaka, and the former read aloud the names of chiefs whom it was intended to arrest No resistance waa offered, but some of those wanted could not be found. It was decided that all the prisoners should go to New Plymouth this afternoon.

Road Making Operations. A working party of a hundred A.C., with a covering party of fifty A.C., marched out to commence road making. Major Tuke communicated with Capta. Northcroft and Morrison under him. ;01. Roberts, accompanied by Messrs. Wilson and Hur-thouse, C.E.s, selected a Hue for the new road, and it was quickly laid out by the surveyors During tins time, it rained heavily, so that the men had a wet time of it. The new road runs east from Parihaka to Stratford, and will, doubtless, necessitate demolisation of some wharea on its way to the main line.

Singular Affair. Yesterday afterDOOu two girls, apparently Europeans, dropped two pieces of paper over the fence close to the camp. A sergeant of the Wannea Rifles picked them up, and on reading one found that it stated that the writer, being tired ot living with the Maoris and fearing she would be taken into the bush with them, asked the finder to have the note delivered to her mother, a European, 'lhe first note was shown to Major Pitt, who laid it before Colonel Roberts. The gill will be taken away from the natives.

General State of Affairs. The difficulty scema little altered. Certainly a few prisoners have been taken, but, with the exception ot two, the prisoners are not representative men. Tamakoke, one of them, if he has any ancestral rights at all, has a claim upon Pan haka only. Of those who have left of their own wish, Wi Parata took fi\ c to Wdikane, and of eleven that went with Tivhine four were women and three children. Tins (Friday) morning there is strict order against any visitors seeing Te Whiti. Even his relatives are forbidden admittance. The latest despatch from Puns?arehu is dated yesterday, 3 pin., and reports nothing fresh has happened this morning at Pan haka. The natives are killing a Urge number of pigs. Mr Edwin telegraphs Mr Bryce to expect a northerly gale with rain. The road- making party are at work, but this afternoon the constabulary were again engaged making arrests. Twenty-six, belonging to Wanganui have already been arrested, and more are to be ea