THE TARANAKI NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5423, 2 July 1879, Page 2

THE TARANAKI NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

Twenty more A.C.'s are to leave Wellington for Carlyle in the Patea to-day. The reports about Te Whetere ordering the Europeans away from Mokau are said to be untrue. On the contrary, he is represented in a "Wellington telegram as most zealous in our-cause.

: The native ploughmen at Opunake were yesterday committed for trial at the next sittings of the District Court, which will be held on the 1 7th" July. The prisoners were brought from the gaol about 11 o'clock and marched through the town between a large escort of police to the Court-house. The Grown Prosecutor is prosecuting them. " .. ; At Hawera ploughing was again postponed for a day. The Maoris seem to appreciate the fun of putting the Pakehas in suspence. .Mr Cameron; living a mile and a half from Hawera inland, was threatened .by a well-known bully, 1 named Takorangi, of Ketiohitea. Mr, Cameron has sent the threatening letters to the authorities. ;

Te Tokai again says • that he intends to continue .ploughing land, but does not ,want to injure, the settlers — his fight is with the (Gi-overnmenfr. There is great indignation at Hawera at a report that men are not to be employed upon the railway works immediately between that place and Cetinarai. The Government' promised definitely that men should be at once employed, and 80 men from Taranaki had arrived yesterday. The Maori prisoners at New Plymouth are to be removed to Wellington for trial, as it is thought scarcely fair to try them in New Plymouth, where local feeling is of course .strong. A o cbange of venu will be appealed for to-day. The whole of the men belonging to the Kaitiga at Tapuea have been arrested, with the exception of two old men, who were left with the women. The gaoler at New Plymouth has been told to prepare room for thirty more prisoners.