ANOTHER NATIVE DIFFICULTY. TE WETERE STOPS THE WAY. Affairs at Otorohanga.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2193, 29 July 1886, Page 2

ANOTHER NATIVE DIFFICULTY. TE WETERE STOPS THE WAY. Affairs at Otorohanga .

|BV TKLBGIUPH— OWN CORUKSrONMJENT.J , > ' Kihikihi, Wednesday. BuiLMSG .operations a?e at «« sjunclßtill at OtoVbhanga, ottiftg to tyi obstruction on the part of some Mokini native's. It appeals that the natives' committoegave permission to some Europeans to erect stores on the prospect of'tho Land Court being hold there, tho Europeans tin pay a(;eertai)i rorit, I understand thatKtnii rout .'.was to be hold by the committee in trust until the proper owners of the laud vv«i'« decided upon by the court. Wetere Te Kerenga and sonio of his men from Mokau, however, objected to, any buildings goiijg up, on the ground thM the. land is theirs and the committee had no power or authority to allow any buildings to be erected, "The result in that operations have been susuended for tho present, pending a conference of the natives. If this course is persisted in it will have the effect of stopping the 'court being held there, as unless some buildings are erected there will be noaccom'Wfiaaf»h"fB* M tHIT iMßdals- cbn'riefcted with the court. This obstruction has irritated some of the native, so there may be some difficulty in arranging matters to the satisfaction^ <Jf all § Ilhe "inteteatea are xhnre now,' trying' to efFect some arrangement. Some of the obstructionists, I hear, refuse to acknowledge the native committee at all, and are desirous of ( doing, aw»y it. Perhaps a little .arrangement m the way of a Rnbsidy is all that is required with the leaders. Matters have been at a standstill this week, and aro likely to remain so, at any rate foy some