THE TARANAKI NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5422, 1 July 1879, Page 2

THE TARANAKI NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

1 The Government} received yesterday ilhe following telegram :—" Opunake, Sunday. Ten. unarmed natives recommenced ploughing to-day on Government land -at Te.Namu, near Opunake. They were turned off three times by the Armed Constabulary under Major Goring, and were told that if they came again they -would be arrested. . They did so, and the chief Ngamari was taken in custody and is now lodged in the guard tent at Opunake." A party of natives, numbering about 100, arrived at Waingongoro on Sunday, ostensibly to tangi over a dead chief/ but it was reported that they intended ploughing at Mr Liyingatone's and at Normanby's :to?day they had ten pair of bullocks with them. The natives, who .were turned off at Opunake,- made., no. resistance to the arrest of Ngamari.. He is the chief Avnp. has ; on several occasions ordered the settlors off at Opunake, and who has been in many other respects troublesome. Instruction's of 'the most peremptory character have been issued along the Coast, from the White Cliffs to Wanganui, to arrest and imprison all Maoris found ploughing upon. 'European lands. : The natives commenced ploughing at Oakura . yesterday !mbrrimg tyhen seveateen'of iaoiu were, arrested];" „ ." . ; '; ' -.

'--■ A telQgtarjfi • •. U : "-y>/- States ,- 1 : that of the 17 nt ' / iOakura . 1 twio^ere; boys. ■■■'■ ".■.--.- /•." Native . V Mitmter haa ord- •• ■'• '■ I \ sed, but. I full^instrjibtion^ • . •;7 • . ution of fit fcb.e^psh.erdllxaYei - / ■ . ih^ellh|ft6n^.i ;1 / - ioutorat " ' ffil Ke^ Plymouth/ , soted to \$ b&;bo^mitted fc . 1 imme- /*j diajely remove' ; '. . a. An ; V froi >rities in. ' A MeyP Plymouth. ' .. ;•: coramo- \ dation^h^s Beel~ Mtotiffi aTO^pt^soiTema .. . ['''{"* \f'^'lave left . Wms .^st tHe, native , /..- • he north of^?#i| ar^ Cwl: ) "^fee at — " '■' Jrrlr -' ■% *.~V± '■■■(' I - r WV( TfXJIB ' -••m r *' :.~ r \~ 1 . -/' ' v «*W-*;-"': . : s '\i is expected :thHjb to-dly'^u^fiing \ a twns will be ret umed-on Mr laving- .';■" '■'. ..stop's )and l; aji .flaVerajj.^ut^eye^ppre^Q- v par&on has been /made to board ana h~ Mg\ the plqughm^n, at rHer, Majes^y'm " '>- : exp§^S?s3me^fin^.^|"; ; ' °^, I 'Wtri|i{ai^^nief pf^iote..ii&beon.sin^ < j 'J£Mqsxl to report 6n#te^^ state of affairs ", ' LThe niftves arrested f6¥\ploughing oa^ * Mr; Oouttney's /land are & be broutfhtl before the the It.'M. this mining under" MaJipiotuirlUjuryi ibQ/^Qper^y. Aotj ...1,87,6, and>if they^areiconv^gll'they will ; beli«!iifi.t^anotheJ r pakVQf vS.colo n y!,tg^ /« serve thf&.'senteilbe-^^he me^*ai9;cliTi|M^T.J into ;seefcidfis. in gaol,r«tnd atcr se^g^ffihlr '"A from;: the Other., prisphersi 1 , .-The yo'un^.^H d/en"dd npis^erd toi^dtKep^nis^ens?«s'v .MS bld aatives tite f e'ry- siiliett* '6xl^4 natives, whenj asked wtafeSt :" c thought !of -Kis ; position^ ' laughingly^ *■ $? replied, " We expected to be^kenup thtf--fcsi> f a^^J'WeJare^only. tha braificliefS- ana®cßlrn following^e,Wh.iti' S/ .prdefs: why dpybti I not taketh^trjink^f the;^ee ?" ' r To this l?^ P m ajk;the 'pld^an got .'iKe; answer .th^t ? D^ v *w wfts ;(^traded ;;tp, .. -tap ;. the „^noteB Wi>K tha*£e,WM%as aboutf.to-Witiidrftw^l^ plougjungjpsyties in a fewrdays Sl mvThe Qoffl''; yerwrient .havV^eplied to Mr they cannot .Skfford to, t opnvenlence;i f iind "that;; tH&^ inStrtiot&n*^ giyehielatiye to Ike i'arreistbf tresti&iadltff??^? «.«» effect fbftHwrtH?"--^ ■& toformationnas ;b6 «a recet^ed ?< bf fIJJ I^ . GoVetnment lA^e ■p#ect,,tllatT*e Wfiai^ ij '* #n4;totoipn'::%ltO|iel ia3 ploughing, at,Mr;,l4vWa^n^'s.at^^Wa^i - „ 1 gopgdrou The. Gtovenifiient fiaVei . .?* f^tiit'.iß-of/.no-; cooseq^ence ; from, "w_gpiai^V the instructions came-*he I persons: oofei^a. . cerned therein are 'lawbreakers/ and the orders previously-given for the arrest of aU;peESbri6 so engaged/ are to be vi* /rigorously enforced A New Plymouth .telegram sfeatestiiat : wij;h about 30" OonskMary,^ Opufelke, arte^ted Ngaware's party and captured -. .^^;#^P^.^E^.^<xrißeHi /Tile 1 naitivda. ';were;;,;plpwghmg u^ the 'Gom^iffiffltt? pa.addcsk at Opunake. : '- ■ ' ! -•*-«>' ? 'i'^A Jßlk A- number of natives assembled yeß-" ilil tei?da'y joiorniiig d,t Wireraere, threeimleiirj } from Normanby, but they were Siscpyered/ , tp;be merely holding a tanai over m ftid. f ■ chief.-.- . .. . - _ . _■'.■, j;... ,;.. The.; Tar'anaU ffemtd's .Carlyle 00^;',^ respondent telegraphs : that it .was^re-vV/ui ported.; on Sunday ;that • sixty MapriT iploughmen passed Opunake ■ bii'Satijrday "' for Mawhitiohiti, having TJeaii cbm--missioned by Te Whiti to continU^' f ploughing- on the' south side pf'ihe'^v ■Waingongoro. It was reported in New :: Plymouth . that the natives" ' ,belr|(reW ( '' £ Opunake, and Parihaka are very sullen and are arming themselves. . '.."'''t.