WAITARA, Last Night. DUNEDIN, Yesterday.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1566, 18 July 1882, Page 2

WAITARA, Last Night.

DUNEDIN, Yesterday.

Mr "Grace has returned fronrMokau, having successfully negotiated the lease, upon satisfactory terms, of the land with coal and limestone, on the, south tjank jpi the Mokau river, for'Mr : J. Jones.; jit the assembly of natives at Mokau letters and telegrams from two noted half-caste women i« Auckland were produced, requesting the natives tot forward statements to -Auckland, in order that money might be raised thereon, and stating that Mr Abbot, of Auckland, had already been induced to entertain proposals. A half-caste was on the ground' prompting the natives not to,- negotiate with Mr Grace. The Maniaopotos resented the interference of the half-caste, and ordered him away from Mokau. All the natives ai Mokau, 76 in number, signed Mr Jones' lease in one afternoon. Application will be made by the natives to the Chief Judge to allocate the claim of one of the half-caste women whose claim is not ancestral.' The mines at Mokau , will now shortly be at work. s »"

Donald Glass, while driving a threshing machine across the Waimateri Road, feu and received injuries from which he died almost immediately. He waa intoxicated at the time.