THE NATIVE CRISIS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 73, 24 September 1881, Page 2

THE NA TIVE CRISIS.

♦ — — PREPABATIONS FOR A RAID ON THE A.C. CAMP. TE WHITI ON THE RESULT OF WAR. ENROLMENT OF VOLUNTEERS. j UNITED FRIES ASSOCIATION]. N«w Plymouth, Thi3 Dat. Deputations waited last night on the Native Minister to represent the state of the district. Mr. Rolleston assured the deputations that the Government were fully alivs to their responsibility, and would provide for tho protection of life and property, and that (hould thero be anything in the aspect of affairs calculated to raise immediate alarm, ample notice wou d be given. Latßb. The Native Minister, Colonel Roberts, and Mr. Parris were expected to arrive at Pungarehu at noon to-day. They will not visit Parihaka. The natives come down every morning, as usual, to fence. Te Whiti gave a strong lectur« to some of his impulsive young men the other evening: . They were preparing a surprise on the oamp, and Te Whiti, hearing of it, Bent for thorn, and addressed them as follows: — "If you kill five pakehas they will get ten to fill , their place. If five Maoris are killed, thero are none to ■ fill their - place. jThe - Maoris are hemmed in ' on' every *side by Europeans, and if you fight and kill all the men in the eunp hundreds of Europeans will oomo and taki their places. Tho result is that you will be killed, and the pakoha will have all the Und." The young men were influenced by Te Whiti'a words, and did not make the raid they intended last evening. Haweba, This Dat. A mounted rifle corps has boon enrolled at Manaia, also at Opunake. Mr. W. .L. Martyn has been elected captain of the former troop. A meeting will be hold at Manaia to-night to enrol a volunteer corps of infantry rifles.