IMPORTANT MEETING OF NATIVES IN THE KING GO COUNTRY.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1653, 8 February 1883, Page 2

IMPORTANT MEETING OF NATIVES IN THE KING GO COUNTRY.

The big 'Kingite meetings at Whatiwhatihoe, from • which- so < much was expected in the past, biit which, iieverthel6Ss, generally terminated as they had j commenced,' have ceased to 'be looked, forward to by natives as a means ■ of; solving the important, and now long 1 pending guestiph of the.opening, of the 1 country, and the settlement of, the ' laud • question generally ,jj ,ai}d the vacillating: dignitary at wl^os'e ';;graci6us t command"' these meetings' j\n\[e been' called, \' has ceased to be looked,up, to as the happy medium for'the settlement 1 of the important question referred to. The Ngati-, m'atiiapotosV since Mi? Bryce'si visit jto the king country^ seem to have determined'totake auHndep'endeftt''* course of their own in the matter of dealing with the Europeans.". I Ma'iiy incidentsi which! have come under jour notice since Mr 'Bryn'e's r ' unsuccessful i • meeting) witli! Tawhiao, 1 > have ! tended' .to ■ show very) clearly ijliat the^ Ngathnaniapojio§ were no longer * jcoiitent iwithf remaining under 1 Tawfnao's mana ;—in fact-did riot recogJ wise it more |( than .the, f Europeans themselves, and were bent on an,early settlement of the subject ''■which 1 had been'so frequently aud so resulttessly discussed. Rewi, Wahanuii fl. Tjumui,r Wetere, and other chiefs of this important tribe, have now arranged a meeting at a "place. called Totoro, about' 50' miles on the Mokan,rivfir,;and abQutitwo" days ride from Kihikilii, and- the only European whom they have invitid to be presotrt^at their deliberations and discussions isf Mi* W. H. Grace. - The day appointed for the meeting is the 2(jth mat., and from what ,we leaiv, jtiiobject is/indefinitely .arvange the native situation, the , opening up "of "the cou'ntryj" 1 1' atttili^ siori of roads, 1 railways, &c ' l iW^tere, ( after r; , arranging for .-a,, supply of food at Totora, telegraphed 1 tp Wahanui, Rewi and Mr Grace; 1 'informing! thenv that lie had lh'adei i all - the arrange-, ments fo,i} the.ineetingso^j^he 26th, anjl_ warning them f to ( be on t.he ground on that day without 'fail. "lj 3?he original iij-' tention of'the ohtefs, having (come to a satisfactory arrangement, was to go down the Mokau river in their canoes and meet the representative'.ofWthe .Goyerhinent (wlioeVei^ tliafc" 1 might ' r ,be—rprobably Mr Bryce) at the Mokau Heads, and there lay their views before him. This ar-« (rapgemen|?,'h,owe/ver, seems ha^& been, upset by -the recent|unMyburable « 6i, Mr Bryce to Rewljjn^tne^amnesty^cples-y tion; and we Ijayeitiot a« yet Jieard what" oourse'has been substituted. "^From what wer^c^tligrj'Ngajjnijgiiapgij^ia noW determined to .effectya settlement, and im mediately, 4laitiFW solution of tie 1 may be,lpq^%fQ?w^^atjao yery>an-« tantdate. Tawhiao and his :«»««« seem

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