MEETING OF NATIVES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3040, 9 January 1892, Page 2

MEETING OF NATIVES.

(BY TELKGKAI'II— E'HES.S ASSOCIATION.) Waxganl'l, Ti.ursd.iy. Tun meeting of natives at Pariknw ceased yesterday. The visitors included rspresentitives from Wuikatn, Wait itara, Olaki. and the Oast, Waiiiir.ipa, tmim, Like Country, UrewL-ia. Country, Wliaitatana, Etwt Coast, and the Upper and Luver Wunganni. A law also attended I'roin the Bay of Hands an 1 Smith Hand. Their number N li-stiiiiat-jii at l,(iO0, besides children. T-) Kooti alone wuh accompanied by LMO mounted foilhvck Te K""ti has ite.pt very cliLsa :iil the tiin;, r .inly showing niii)s;<]f out:.idG of his tint until after the Europeans had left. Until tod iy the meeting has partaken in.re of the nature of a feast, bat this morning a discussion on the Government n.itivo lands policy took place fcwry speaker being rltad ngaineb it, and decided unanimity was shown in expressions of disapproval. Te Kooti did not speak. A pnvat-i couimit'eo meeting will be held to-night to decide the course to be t.iken. The attitude of tho meeting is regarded us significant of tlio passive resistance which will result in the shutting up of native land* by refusal t > sell. The business of the meeting is understood t> be ended, and the tribes will be returning horns in the next few days. The river steamer brought the Hist batch down today. An exchange of compliments took place between Mnji.r Kemp and Te Kunti. Mention was made of the tact that during the war the Major had chased Te Kooti and Wivs very anxious to catch him, but they both hnped all that would now be torgotten, and they would henceforth be friends.