Great Representative Native Meeting.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 152, 24 December 1885, Page 2

Great Representative Native Meeting.

The native meeting which is to commence at Hastings at the end of Ibis month will be one of the largest representative gatherings which haa ever been inaugurated in the i colony. Maori meetings have in the past ¦ been mainly of a tribal oharaoter ; the coming one will inolude the leading ohiefa of nearly j all the tribes in the North Island, and in thin , rcspoot the asaemblagewill be unique. Twenty. : nine important ohiefa have already arrived »(,

the pUwe of meeting. Topia Turoa and Hoti Ropiha (tho latter of whom wont Horns with the King) will probably be preront; Major Kemp is expected to bo among thedelogatos, and Paora Kuratnate, from Wanganni, is now in Wellington en route to Hastings. From the Weat Coast the natives are going in largo numbers, and a considerable contingent from the Wairarapa, nndor To Ao, M.H.ft , are on their way to the gathering. Taupo Bonds the whole of her representative men, and Ngatimaniopoto will to represented in the person of Taonui or Wtthanni. Mr. Ballanoo will loavo hero about the 30th to attend the meeting. Tho Bubjeoti to bo discussed will inolude To Kooti' s visit te tho East Coast, the Native Lands Disposition 15U1 Native Lands Court Survoyu, Native Committees, the representation of tho native pcoplo in Parliament, tho question of nativoß exeroising the European frauchiso, and other Bubjoots of importanoo.