PROBABLE ACTION OF TE WHITI.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 545, 25 June 1879, Page 2

PROBABLE ACTION OF TE WHITI.

FRE3H PLOUGHING OPERATIONS. PREPARATIONS FOR REMOVAL OF THE NATIVES. [>BK PRB6S AGBKCT.] Patba, This Day, 9 «.m. The natives have as yet not returned to Livingstone's to resume the ploughing from which they were so summarily ejected, bat a messenger was dispatched to Panbaka to con» suit Te Whiti and receive his instructions how to act. It is assumed that Te Whiti, in order to keep up his prestige, will instruct them to proceed with their ploughing. It is also thought probable that he may tend a fresh contingent in order to assist them in their work. Affairs are very quiet just now, but how long they will remain so is doubtful. The natives were to have ploughed at Omikia to-day, but there is no appearance of the ploughmen as yet. The Kakaremea Maoris will to-day plough Patterson's land, which is situate at a distance of some four miles from Patea ; consequently there is a party already formed to remove i them, in the event of their carrying out their threats. They are already ou their way to carry out their intentions, but it is very probable that the ploughing will be but little, as the ' settlers will remove the Maoris with more haste than they will be prepared for. Ten Maori men and five women passed through Patea yesterday on their way to Parihaka with horses and bullocks. A rumor was current that telegraph communication was interrupted between Opunake and Hawera, the wires having been cut by the natives, but there is no foundation whatever for this canard.