OBSTRUCTION TO THE RAILWAY SURVEY.
BY TELEOItAPH-PREss ASSOCIATION.]
New Plymouth, Thursday. lire "Taranaki Herald" Menui correspondent writes: "Rawson andMounteforfs railofaX^uJ?;°y P'^ty havo gone up to tl.o source of the W aitara Rivor, and I imagine will remain thero until further ordors. Tho natives are packing the tucker that was up SjTpo^tu R£ver to a d°Pot on the Waitara River. That whicli Tumata and his party stolo they havo taken away in canvas to their own settle ment either to Puketapu or Matuhehei,on the Wanganui River. I heartheyhavo also Mr H. Skeot's theodolite, which was in the whare. Tumate asked Waite where Skcet was, and said if he found him' he would 'km him.' He told Waite his name. This is the same native who came a fow years back and caught Skeet in the bush in that direction when he was brought into Wanganu by To kKtt Tum? taa»d hisVrtKo
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4291, 22 February 1884, Page 2
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