WAIKATO.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 5, Issue 235, 30 November 1861, Page 3

WAI K A T O .

(Prom the Wati^anui Chronicle.)

The King mailman, who left Waikato on 9th Oct., and was here last Friday, brings intelligence that the Waikatos are still determined to stand by their King, and to oppose the making of roads. They expected a message from Sir George Grey, requiring them to give lip their opposition on both grounds, and their answer was quite resolved on. Should the Governor be equally determined, 1 they wish him to give a month's notice of war, and intend to ask the King natives throughout the island to rise in their various localities. Of course there aie two parties in such a case, and no doubt in most instances the Maories will prefer going to Waikato to fight there, leaving their land and goods in security till their return, to fighting where they live, and thereby exposing both to jeopardy, as well as their lives. The Wanganui Natives are of this opinion, and unless^ some local provocation should cause a rising here, those who wish to fight intend proceeding to Waikato. This account of the firm attitude of the King Natives is confirmed by John Williams, a Putiki Native, who was at Taranaki lately, and whose opinion from what he heard on the journey is, that the King Natives will come to no reasonable terms, unless compelled by force. It remains to be seen whether they will continue as defiant, when they come face to face with the certainty of war if they do not yield. It is said that part of the Ngapuhi tribe will join them, the mother of Matutaere, the so-called King, being a step-sister of Hone Heki, the great Ngapuhi warrior^, and the relationship (thus not being very remote) requiring the rendering of what aid may be possible in any strait by the one tribe to the other.