ANOTHER "NATIVE TROUBLE" AT TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5392, 27 May 1879, Page 2

ANOTHER "NATIVE TROUBLE" AT TARANAKI.

I On Sunday Borne natives with eight, ploughs went on the land of Mr Caverhill at Oakaru, Taranaki,' : and proceeded to '"•' plough the land up/ The natives were| spoken to and their reply was ''All the' pame as Waimate Plains;" They are inpossession of the, ground. , The land is part of the confiscated land given to the military settlers. Considerable excitement has .been., occasioned by this, <step. being taken, natives Uving' so rieaV toHhet town. To M&tay, a nephew of Pariru' Kingi, andTukino were in command," and they stated that., they, were, actingj.ymder iorders from Te Wbiti, to go and occupy jill confiscated land, as the Europed,ii| are mow their slaves. Te "Wapiti • who was with, excitement, , -was evidently buffering from a fit of fanaticism, but jhe 'afterwards apologised for being /spited, and said he hoped" there ; would' be' no ill-feeling between-.th.em. As a result of ja meeting of /gentleman, held yesterday ;Mr Kelly telegraphed iip the ;Prenuep ; and ;Native Minister^' reporting the' facts' as Ibeing very serious, and :i iirging prbnapt 'action to. guard; against them; becoming .more so. A settler, who arrived in New yesterday morning, states that ;the natvies had warned him to leave his ;pla.ce'i :.i:z .: ', :..:' • ,-. ; i'- v" -O,h The Herald' s.OkatiL correspondent te,le- ; graphed yesterday that the chief EoukupaJ |had informed William .Bayley, ! whowis I living at $toneyKiver, that the natives J wer& ; coining to, plough" up part of^his- 1 land arid that of * Others in the - district. f The "settlers are in considerable 'anxiety, < and think the , should' send reinforcements. '" ' '"