A "REPUBLIC" ESTABLISHED AT HAWERA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5417, 25 June 1879, Page 3

A "REPUBLIC" ESTABLISHED AT HAWERA.

A "Eepublic" has^bten :: at J Hawera; Mr.liivitfgstcJtta Using! the^first. President. He intends to carry out a peace- polioy, quietly preventing the destruction of the settlers' property by the deluded natives .until th& JJqyernment are in a position to occupy the Waimafe Plains. An " ejectment committee"f has been formed, chosen by the "President," -who -wisely picked coolheaded linen. Their duty is to remove the ploughmen quietly, the light horse, under arms, being the coverongj sparfa^Jiu case of surprise. The Ma^nPt"v^eitelwuiß ejected| yesterday, the light^liprsj^, skirmishing in fine order. ? Captain. Wilson^ deserves the thanks, r of T^the f , country for demanding thfijre^^e^of Jh&;" so callejl hostages, as no one; l kndsS[^atf the consequences -would hays rtfeisrirf The Maoris| on Sunday left Ifce -TJrayS 7 plough! near the Waingongoro bridged but yesterday they too l knthenj;£hpsae. r The sellers think that JheyAi?^!' Wt c come fcaok, but they have sent to Te "Whiti %or instructions. About thirty settlersVby turn patrol about " President" livingstone's* ""fibilse.' ""Yesterday -there - great exoitement in Hawera con- *" sequeßfe»^nt«a^rjMnoi;«tha : t w^ese^w i er,e iri a hundred armed 'Maoris covering the approach to the "Waingongoro bridge. ,The volunteers nturned-jpijt ,-to plunder 'arms. TSe ploiighmen"were' I^iken, -with, the ploughs, boldly across tfie bridge under cover of'th" c lighfc-horse. and. J oiinsun, are under arms in town, for anyjemerg^y.^ s Th,er^is no knownig what the next move of Te Whiti will be, but it is doubtful-^Bj^Cj lie will get the same ploughmen k> go on" 1 the land again. A ng^fprew^wiU probably be told off.