THE NATIVE CRISIS. [PER PRESS AGENCY.]

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 549, 30 June 1879, Page 2

THE NATIVE CRISIS. [PER PRESS AGENCY.]

THREATENING APPEARANCES AT WHITE CLIFFS. ARREST OF 17 MAORIS. New Plymouth, This Day, 11.8 a.m. The Maoris resumed ploughing at Tapuae yesterday morning. A message was sent into town requesting the authorities to issue warrants against the trespassers, but when the officers went out the Maori* were gone. Matters look threatening at White Cliffs. Thirty-five men, originally intended for Opunake, were landed here from the Hinemoa yesterday. These, with 50 men from Oakura, are under orders to proceed to Urenui. The natives at Urenui, most of whom csme from Chatbam Islands, are more wickedly disposed than those On the south side of us, and it is thought scarcely prudent to turn the northern ploughmen off without an armed covering party. 12.35 p.m. The Maoris resumed ploughing at Tapuae this morning. They were immediately apprehended and brought in under an armed escort of SO men, and lodged in the New Plymouth gaol. The prisoners are Wi Kamokamo and twelve others. They made no resistance . An order for the men to march to Urenui has been countermanded. 1.5 p m. Te Patu. and other Maoris, broke down the fence of John Elliot, a farmer at EsstWaitara, and let out the cattle this morning. When remonstrated with, Te Patu said he would repair the fence when it was convenient to him, adding that Elliot stole the land.