THETARANAKI NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5445, 28 July 1879, Page 3

THE TARANAKI NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

News reached New Plymouth on Saturday the natives were entering Mr Eowe's farm at Huriangi, and that Mr Howe was opposing their entrauce when the kessenger left. They were the same lot of natives that had been ploughing Mr Kin^don's land. It io' stated the naiitep ate destroying th^ ian4.atajiith£ plaifas by throwing dv.etj lisee'^s'o'f Avee'ds and; bad wheat, and putting in potatoes ljere and there. The Constabulary LKafe gon^ to arrest the natives wno are doing so. ; The natives in NeVMymduth 1 openly sayi that they are going-to jfTough'the land and go to Port Nick-/- • - ' M public meeting -was -held at New Plymouth on Saturday, at which resolution's were Carried to 'the :> effect, that the behaviour df the fansitical. adherents of > is Keeping .the inhabitants' in a r akatfe of extreme anxiety, and that both agricultural and commercial business is paralysed ; that- the fanaticism of the natiyea. may at any time assume a more dangerous for hi, and that members of Parliame,nt.frpm the ..whole colony should Ueepgnis'e th©~ gravity ofHhW situation, #tld unite in prov'idiiig" ah efficient remedy for 1 the p'r'eWnV'rfisa^tFoi^ c'oh"4iti(?n of aflfairs ; that present attitude of disaffected native's is' mainly due' to 1 their having been allowed since the last war to ocoupy a large district uritraversed by roads, and for many, yeara to defy the authority of the Government within that district "by protecting jrlalefafltors attd forbidding the donsirtldtioin of public works ; thatithe'tiriie has now, arrived when this Std^e of things should be brought to an fe'iid ; thai the' mfe'etihg lhost strongly urges iipon the Government and the Assembly the necessity f6f the immediate comiiieiicement of good open, roads in the district v beftfeeii Wdiugongbro and the Sougoto'htfafc rivers; and that the services ■ oi the. Constabulary ndw iri the district bi made use of to protect the workers arid aid in the.'- work ; that the Governitieht be requested to capture Hirioki and Te' Whiti attd bring them to justice. AtitheOconelu'si^ri of the meeting -a sub' acription was raised to telegraph, the resolutions to Wellington, : Apolitical gathering, was subsequently heVdi at which the action of Major Atkinssh: and Mr s&elly wafappro'ved, and that of Mr Harrington cohd'era'necli '■ __ ■- Fifteen more' Maoris were arrested at Hikurangi on Saturdajr. They, had made fcfery Srrangemeiit for being taken priBonets; : had flax in their pockets" to 'enable the co'ristables to t tie their hands with. One native went and procured, an r old hat, a ragged shirt, and broken boots, as he said the Government would give them new clothes. The natives are determined to show their belief in Te Whiti by going to prison, because he taunted them at the Parihaka meeting with being only lukewarm in their faith.' The 27 prisoners 'arrested at Bell Block hive been dealt with summarily and sentenced to two motiths' hard labor in Dunedin gaol, and also to find sureties to keep the peace for twelve months, each of them in £600 and two sureties of £300 each.