LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
_.A,RoBBERy .of a serious-kind .was-committed on Sundayr,.eyejiing ~last.;; vJ^^S;cfivener/'rC‘siding'in. .the.; yjetoria/.avenue,,is, accustomed toysbut : up his 1 house '.whiie' At' ’ chapet; l and Come -miscreants, ; °f: the . np? porturiity,; broke into . the-/ heli.se -on '.-Sunday evening,: and after'.’ a thbrO’ugli -. Search; took away seventy sovereigns: whiclr ; happened to be lying in it; No trace/bf*-tlie thieves has been discovered,; and it is feared, that from- the nature of the booty detection will be difficult. Wp.W that , there is a bafi'k in- the place no one should run. such a risk, r .- ■ /r- .
Native,,Meetings-. have bee:v two meejtings-of -Natives during the last week in this neighbourhood. The first: was‘held on Friday and-Saturday at Pakaraka, in the WaitotaraV district. About 200'-were present. Several of the more the- river Wanganui natives attended*-afi.d against the King, movement,; /.about 50' of Whose adherents of .-.the'Waitotsfra- tribe were present. • Some of t'hese'rKirigi.ipeni.use.il‘'yery strongrlanguage, blit, were by The ’Wanganui: clnef"Afawae, r Tvho, in reply t ! o a statement that the country'wakbr6lcejt;up and quite destroyed, said, —•“ Who.'lias caused ;it to be so but yourselves? 'Do — n^t""taritT about this little affair- breaking up’ the?eaiintry No —it is merely .local:' Thfe'-Pd’keha' is' not so easily destroyed. ' W as there nofea war in the noiTh with The: Nga.'Pulii ?’rpidj.not the Pakeha come -off safely :Was-there not another atThe Hutt and at; age: toi-put an ‘end to it -? : :‘ 3 And‘ i afterwards, was there not another at- Wanganui/ which-, he also survived ? ; And yqU wi.lTTbe he will soou settle this like the. others; t 'Yqu : may*'go* to Taranaki and-fight if-yoii a: fighting man ; I am not afraid to-fight; If you go, do not come to Wanganui When you return, otherwise : I will io^^pse;you and beat you as I have : done Jjtemembpr; how many have fallen. and,will fall. : Amongst us there are hone to replace these. But every European'who'is‘kiUed fs r spc9eeded.by many fresh men, who eome. frqm'^l|* to help. Therefore* listen to m?.;- :/Let us- be united, and let us i all* betone Tidth the Governor.” This-speecli seemed- tG-,tell*:sanjd with the exception of ten, who . consented meanwhile to remain neutral,- all agreed to acknowledge the Governor. . . The Waitotaras,. related ■to the-Ngatiruanuis, and.are somewhat afraid of them so that' the result; of:, This meeting is satisfactory; -' ; v ■ ■ ’The -second . whicKf,was held'on Monday at, Tiirakina, was attended - by about 150 of* the Ngktiapa/' from Rangitikei,- Turakina, and v :were unanimous in* /pronquheing for tne. ; and condemning^ moveihen|Tl^,v ’ f
; ? J)l .Mail for .fibe-Nqrtk will up this afternoon Togo by the Wonga Wongm rfe The Monthly-JHail tralia wiil be closed* on Thursday Next, the Ist&Novembferii af-11 ?a.Mi r ‘-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 214, 25 October 1860, Page 3
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