WHANGANUI.

Daily Southern Cross, 11 April 1868, Page 3

WHANGANUI.

The Wh&nganui Evening Herald skates that " The ladies of Whanganui are resolred to bake their own bread (and they know how to do it well), until the price of a loaf is such as to put it in the power of their husbands to buy bread for their families. And the husbands, good souls, are going to form an association to pledge themselves to eat no bread except what is made by women. Let the bakers, therefore, take warning, and be content with a fair and honest profit, or they will find that the weaker sex will be too strong for them. All honour to the women of Whanganui, who are thus determined to put down foul monopoly." The Independent says :—": — " The natives in the Whauganui district have unanimously expressed horror at the attempted assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh. On the departure of the Armed Constabulary for Hokitika, the Putiki chiefs Hori Grey, Kemp, and Aperiniko went on board the ' St. Kilda,' and told Colonel McDonnell that themselves and their men were ready to go with him on service to the West Coast, or any other part of the colony, to avenge any insult or injury offered or done to the Duke of Edin burgh." The same paper informs us that " The Whanganui papers for the sake of variety have attempted to get up a little excitement in these dull times by reporting native outrages and disturbances between the Maoris and st-ttlers as of * daily occurrence ' in the Patea and Wai otara districts. From reliable authority, however, we may state that there is not the slightest ca»se for alarm, and that the natives in those fine settlements are very harmless 'bogies,' and have as a ruin, especially in the Waitotara, been exceedingly friendly, and fraternised most cordially with the settlers. Stupid newspaper paragraphs, tounded on bad information, are calculated to cau?e seedless uneasiness and alarm. We hope, however, ;hat any one having seen the Wanganui Times of ;he 24th, which contains the news to which we have referred, will alio learn from us that there is no langer whatever."