THE KOPUA MEETING.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4292, 2 May 1879, Page 2

THE KOPUA MEETING.

TBt T_aisoßA_._-._ V , .'";. ALEXANDRA, May 1. Nothing fresh has occurred at Kopua. The Natives had food given them, and are content to wait some days longer for the speechifying. "The Revs. Buddie, Lawry, and Sohnackenb_rg, ol_ Wesleyan ministers, are here . visiting their old scenes of labor, where they had stations which had been confiscated '.by Tawhiao, and are anxious to improve the occasion ,by spreading broadoasj* Maori Testame_sti r and endeavoring to revive old feelings which the outbreak of 1863 dispersed. Many other -Europeans are -present, and Tawhiao has , ordered [proper 'supplies, to be set apart for their use. . ■■'..'••. . , - Jllnisters are almost certain to be censured ott,t_wir._rr_vai for broken prpmisesmiada at Hikurangi. The making of the WaipaRaglan road and gazetting of Maori lands, which it waa understood would be given back, will be discussed. Q_heriS are upwards -of 4000 'now 'on ihe ground, Thompson's house is being prepared for the Premier, ■■■&_ othfr leave h-re\to-*3hyr.y,. '_7ZY77. -.'y. ..' Y',7'7} 777., iEtevri has sent another nmtataon to the Government pairty; Tawhiao says it will take three days to complete, his talk ,

TeIIOH OUItOWTf OOEBESPOHDKST.I v ; ALhTSJ-WDBA, Mjfl. was induced to writ* a letter jrequesting Sir George Grey to return to Auckland, bat Bewi reconsidered, and permitted Mr iVoii Stunner to destroy the letter. ,'" : ;.-;y-T*yy To-day the Eer. Mx iWesleym missionary, from the Three Kings, yiaited. To Kopua wjth -the Hot.; Schnackenberg; "Tbey breakfasted -with -Bewi and Ma-uhiri at Thomson's bouse. Major Jackson and Major Searancke, late It.M., were also present. Bewi,"addressing Mr Buddie, said :—" This is tho result of our taking our hands off each other's heads. Grey aotfl mc now one in body, but we hare still., two hearts, and will discuss matters from independent standpoints. Wf_af.3ir_i__i_ good .of people who cap_-ffi dfajmm • things irom different: tides Pi

I will tell kirn my thoughts,^nTfc^ mc his." 6 ' ona be will Later Mr Buddie and other. ,-, iu , _, Jj* his house. The rscepM-^-Manuhiri said to Mr Buddie <>v not grown old," and again— "_L • n W» meikuamate" (this is then,« * Do »__ thing, that are dead). This " P a 9nUI »»S to Mr Buddies former * thirty-four years ago. Bu.ce then 7 **** Man-ohm's people have died. Aen '°$ took place privately between Mr Bnl^ l ' ol - Manuhiri, at which I was not present k .. w * ac.-ount of which lam indebted to tit■** Manuhiri remarked-" Formerly »_» .*<*■ us Christianity. Then came troubl. l land, and after that war and atrifi* oal time we havo met to restore the fl.'.° ot » tion of affairs." Mr Buddie »«!? ° oßdi - Kewi . people to-night. r «au_s wift One Maori, who was a boy in _-« «• Mr Buddies early missionary l^- U - Co ?- now middle aged, said to him "You *?>» tell mc when I was a boy about M-* •» ,0 fire. For many years I wondered" could be, but I found it waa S 7bA<** Pakeha big guns." Wazs °* the Rain commenced in showers W. -•,. but it cleared up. About noon W the weather again threatened, and -j*. clouds gathered over head. Sin«- '- o'clock constant showers have .n 156 Great quantities of food tlT* from the Waikato camp to nearer the river. Five hundred bsw of T** were taken from under the titreo shed j carried down a distance of half an_il_i!iT Waikatos. The Natives carrying s_rf' *! flour over the plain resembled _. ants. Great stores of food would DrntluT be divided this evening to prevent it ,S by ram Among tho luxuries were a hSI boxes of pork preserved in drippin.'Tv boxes are made of titree bark. *°* Te Reinga, Manuhiri's daughter, asked.,, this morning if there was any truth in t? report that Manga had sent a letter to Si. a Grey telling him not to come. Of (___' I undeceived her. Te Reinga is th« ,_?.' of departed souls, in Maori Edition A. extreme of the North Island. I M . e _ __ Reinga how she was so named. She_.« » to understand that it was given her J* period when her people were beine r_-__i' Silled off by waran'ddisease. SheufSS half insane. '™ Sir George Grey, the Native Miniateraad party of ten, will arrive by steame. to-nX Mid will be conveyed up river by To WhS friendhes and Ngapuhi chiefs to-morrow-The three proposals of the TS g L__\ people, which emanated almost -jffi from Sydney Tawhenga individuallj *_Z telegraphed here and translated 4 j-tti and the Ngatimaniapoto people. X appeared somewhat offended at the dictsto-S tone of the resolutions, until it wa, „. Slained that they had not omanat«l froi Igapuhi aB a body. * wi T eßte rday expressed great admiratic" for the Rev. Mr R.id, beoause ha wasa m__ who spoke his mind.