NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5058, 23 November 1881, Page 2

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

[PBBfIS -8800IATTO- SPECIAL.}

PUNO-AHE HU, November 22. , Affairs at Parihaka are ia ! much the same state as yesterday. Two b-tohts of Natives, thirty and sixty-one strong, ittf sent away to Opunake and No Plymouth respectively. The farmer w_* escorted by Capt. Gascoigne aplKthe Jatter by Oapfe. Newell and a comptny. The destruction of whares was con tinned daring the forenoon, but was stopped at poon, by whioh. time a dozen had b«en pulled down. Operations had to be stopped owiqg % tha. rope being defective. A strong rope bfes been sent for, and to morrow several whares will be destroyed. It was stated here today that fire of the Waitara Natives who were escorted home had returned to Parihaka, but the truth of this assertion ia questioned by tho officers. The only Natives now in custody at Fort Bolleston are Titokowaru, Te Whetu, and another chief. The former will, leave for New Plymouth tomorrow morning to be tried. Captain Taylor, who accompanied the Natives to Waitara on Sunday, returned this evening. It is intended to shift the camp at Parihaka, a more favorable spot haying been selected a little to the west of the present one. A fatigue party were out all day levelling the plaoe, and it is expected that the shift will be made in a few days. The material for constructing the telegraph Line to Parihaka has not yet been delivered here. Major Atkinson addresses the electors of Okaurn to-night, and will pass through here to-morrow on his way to Opunake, where he holds another meeting. Colonel Boberts and Mr Hursthouse visited the rear of Parihaka tbis afternoon. It had been stated that 100 horses were starving in the paddocks, and although feed was rather bare, they could not be said to be starving. The number of whares destroyed is nearly seventy, but the total will probably reach 100 before operations are concluded.