NATIVE OUTRAGE AT WAIRARAPA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3017, 28 March 1867, Page 5

NATIVE OUTRAGE AT WAIRARAPA.

;W£ , take." the following , item of; news : from the | J&ercurijj— ",We learn irom a.l«tter of, M^.Palmer-j st'on,' one of ' Mr, : I)enuan'fl survey .staff;,, that,,, on Monday bust, two natives, .named .respectively E. Manihera and Martiae,, came on^tf>sh& L M&amana Blocks, which' he was^ surveying, j»nd' inquired - s<** I Mr. 'j^ennan^ C^being told h^j was. atj Qwytown," s 1 they , gave Me, P.' letter* fpr,,bim, L whioh. MrsJ?. I laaid he' ■would arrival, portly 1 . | after, , Martine ' said , 6e should a^way.the iheo-. d'oliteV'iiO ./which Mr. F.fobjepted*, stating- 'that; Ke |ha 4 ijothing to, do- .witjti^the „qontract, and to limit unt^l, Afr. J^ennan arriyed. He ; -declined, to |do , tik{a, ( Mr. I^. i then , offered 1 io , oarfy ' the. ' theodolite \ 'ip the, cam]) in Mr., Bid^rell's pad* (dock, ana to go with him there. „ To thi? Martiiie, l-VTOuld'ntiiilisten, iynd, having hold of .the theqdolite iat' \ihe i time, he, snatched itjout of, his hand, and, threatened io smash it to pieces, ,and t Mr! P,,'s bead fcob, ' After a further struggle Mar^jne,, ryhfL^wiß on . hdrsebtok, . mcceeded in getting away, with .the theodolite, .and, both >he ,ancl,, tils companion— after puliing ' down , a flag-pole w,hiph , Mr, , , Dennan , had' r put 'u^, ihe/.day,fceJsojqe-^cgi)lopecloff, jfollowing.d*j l&r.Jf. gave ' information ,o,f jhe Qut!r»'ge J t(D cne' Beaident, Magistrate, . whq:j)^omiied to In^ire iiitp Mrj/P^trvis^J^at.he ,will j lave the protection of the, law, and that as a, British lubjecthe will have redress lor outrage which. lias, bien ,ppfpetrated. (y ,We.un|def» j tand j .that,Hnce ;h'^',date of Mr,!*.^ letter, notwithstjuttding, the iheoJolit'e has been given uptio the gphcej he intends ,6 try tiio Cfwe in $he Kes^ent^Agiatr^te^/Pourt."

LAn ital^n^Qblem'an,! boosting,, pne dajr, of .the. ofgamelie had on his eatate in the provinces, wild, poar, t yo|ye»^ aqd.aqout fifty bng*9ds^'L ojt. f jA ' clerk ».poaljf^oe h«sar4,* **P ** I^^Wdow of the lac&e^'idepartment, when, who ihould there be but * mini by.jbWiiam^of VrtieA^ji^Btite;} ■aid the clerk, Jf.^ift ypPjE^AP gfti^ i^» «o*« ' nde,— thu dcpartmentu for th« duoki,"