THE KOPUA MEETING.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4290, 30 April 1879, Page 2

THE KOPUA MEETING.

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ALEXANDBMpng,| We arrived here at two o'clock, W'l m ridden overland. The party were as* £|| received by Whitiora and bis Hauraki friendlies. There are 300 iiWJfc under Wharetotara (Piksri) aad $%m chiefs. They stood to attention §fe cavalcade, numbering about 600, rods!Bw mj The Hauraki Natives are encampf* Znnm southern side of tho place allotted for ff? m After the opening of the arrived, I have learned the followi* *■£ |: Major Jackson arrived here 7"™®.*.sM a considerable supply of waipiro~tw , -S-y §?<-_ introduction of spirits is forbidden mornrag early he was introduced to if pm ■ by one of the volunteers Mmedß^- tf .|;' interview with Te Kooid lasted hwf |b Some conversation was carried oa i |U Thomas Baker, a European intorprtw. v,, I conversation was general. ~.-.,f^s W. ! This afternoon, during the damWßjj, food to the Europeans by the V fff i^L & Wetere, of Mokau, Major Jackson sßggj; to address the meeting through OA * &. son, a half-caste. Most of tbe cbJHj away, and Major Jackson «w»V "E t* the common people. He » &, that Ministers would be umtw, g| Natives laughed and oheered. ? ij* T-, About 2500 are here. B». «g J& |> meeting was caused by antiMp* ay_t& hj arrival of Sir George Grey «™. I ' , 5L foi» M Tawbiao, To Ngakau, and tf g' §! chiefs had a conversatfon «J*2 , ( nirt» §•- the subject of Sir George WW ?. cropped lip. 7 •^..jifffe'* I '/fe> l-whiaoeaid-Thereisno^" |, invitation to. Sir George ****:„.&$» * ft know tbat it is usual to give .J®" jM» g any country. The only invitation w at the meeting at Hikurangi. , ## k ialsohad4be.oßowicg i«' U Whitiora aud s&veral influential ~* »