TAURANGA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3400, 9 June 1868, Page 3

TAURANGA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

THti native question is affording some food for anxious speculation. That'a morement of importance is about to be made by them is certain, but when, where, or in what questionable shape it m»y come, remains at present open only to conjecture. A man named Magee was sentenced to hard labour the other morning, for wilfully breaking a large window in Mr. Cook's hotel. The prisoner alleged that he was out of employment, and I suppose wai in a destitute condition. A military settler named Beeves got bis foot and ankle entangled in his dray wheel last week, and has since then been prevented attending to his work, which is to be regretted, as he is a very persevering and industrious man. ' Clearing fern for f aiming purposes rstill continues unabatedly, and by the next spring an enormous tract of country in and near Te Papa will be ready for agricultural movements. ' The relief to the Pyes Pa gamson marched on Sunday under the command of Lieutenant Hallowes. The ' Sturfc' is expected to arrive tomorrow. The mail steamer paid a very hurried visit to us from the South on Monday morning early. , The gold-prospecting party I alluded to returned last Friday, aud have for the present been only moderately successful. They state they were not only flooded out, bat that the natives in the neighbourhood : of their research, warned them civilly, yet firmly, away. , , Matters are quiet at Whakatane and Opotiki. ;

(rROM THB "BKCOKD.") May2si From native sources we learn that * tribe of Queen natives are fighting between themselves about some land at Lake Taupo. We learn that an aukati has been drawn by the Haubaus, which include! Kaimi, Paengaroa, Hihanga, and Kakaron. They say, " Our rifles are cocked and capped ; let no man cross, for we shall shoot him, and not warn off ; " and they likewise ■ay that the pakeha will see their facet in two montbi. Jane 1. i Messrs. Swarm and Williams returned from prospecting on Tuesday, but without having met with any success. They were trying the sources of the Ohinemuri, but, owing to the wet weather and the swollen state of the streams, they could not continue. Two natives named Heuni and Paratene rendered them a great deal of assistance, and treated them rery hospitably. On Monday, a rifle match took place at the butts. There were twelve entries at half a-crown each, with one pound added, being the balance in hand from the matches on New Year's Day. There were six prizes, and the competitors to fire five rounds each, at 300, 400, and 500 yards respectively. The following gentlemen were the winners :— Mr. Burrows, 43, 15s ; Mr. Provo, 41, 10s. ; Sergeant Small, 32, 7s. 6d.; Sergeant Cann, 32 6«. 6d.; Mr. Ransley, 26, 65.; Mr. Lough, 26, ss. Ties fired off at 300 yards. Small made a centre, and Cann » miss. Ransley a centre, and Lough an outer. This match having afforded great pleasure to the competitors and visitors, we are glad to hear that there is another match on the tapis.