MORE NATIVE OBSTRUCTION. A SURVEYOR'S DEPOT ROBBED. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1813, 19 February 1884, Page 2

MORE NATIVE OBSTRUCTION. A SURVEYOR'S DEPOT ROBBED. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday.

With reference to the alleged obstruction of surveys by the natives, the following particulars have been obtained : — Several surveyors are new employed by the Government in exploring for the railway line between Wanganui and Waikato, and there are also parties engaged on surveys of other boundaries of the King Country preparatory to that region being brought under inve->tigation for title by the Native Land Court. The depot of provisions, from which several of these parties draw their supplies situated on one of the upper tributaries of the Wanganui river has bsen \ isited by four armed natives, who helped themselves to a I theodolite, and as many stores as they could hold. They told the man in charge t » be oil or they would tie him up, and that they would come back and take the remainder of the stores in the depSt. He was to tell the surveyors they would oppose any surveys. On his return out towards the coast he met the survey party en route for the clepftt, and all the men leturned back within the confiscation line. The Government are now dealing with the difficulty, which at present seems to be the act of young nati\ et., in no way warranted by their chief". Nor is it an indication of the general native feeling, because .several surveyors inland report the natives are quiet "aud friendly to their operations, and have an intelligent comprehension of their object. The obstruction is said to have been caused by Tanimata, who claims a small valley, in which the depdt was situated.