TARANAKI: NATIVE MATTERS. MURDERERS OF MR.WHITELEY REGARDED AS OUTCASTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4147, 28 November 1870, Page 3

TARANAKI: NATIVE MATTERS. MURDERERS OF MR. WHITELEY REGARDED AS OUTCASTS.

We take the following f-. nm ai. o /> Intl „, Taranaki Herald to r? e S . .« r^i, *? has recently been * n a Vlok ng"n^ S^nSr t^' WaS wellrece^ed by Wand ™Vv n V assemWe(l . but that Tiwhiw. was +S y l .^ awllla - Everything is reported by ™. Cmef to bo voi-y peaceable, and the natives are willing to concede almost everyWag, with regard to road-making, &c, to the wishes of the Native Minister. On his way Thaia passed through the Mokau, and saw the natives there. He says that very tew are at the heads, most of the hapu being far inland. He stopped some time with them, and, from conversation with this chief, it appears that they arc anxious to see Mr. Parris. They intend holding a meeting shortly, when the Civil Commissioner will be invited to attend. The murderers of the Key. Mr. Whiteley and others aie not allowed to dwell with the hapu : the natives look upon them as outcasts. Rewi is veryanxious that this part of the King's territory should be recognised by the Government if arrangements can be made satisfactorily with 3 ,^: lbaia£ Vst>Aat, for miles up the Mokau IW, coal ay be 3eeu cr ping out of the bank. " L The Civil Commissioner has left towa for the native dwfcncfc southward, where he has gone to conclude arrangements with the natives for <&c continuance of the roadtmiwnr'dy stopped.