TAWHIAO AND WINIATA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4488, 1 April 1876, Page 3

TAWHIAO AND WINIATA.

I wAn a smoke of the pipe with Hone te One, who has visited this settlement. He has talked the matter of Winiata oyer with Tawhiao who had been stopping at his settlement during the royal. stay in .Kawhia—and the King, he says, told him unmistakably that "Winiata shall not be given up"— and, said Hone to One, evidently the King meant what he said, for he spoke with much firmness and determination. A meeting had been held, he told me, at Kawhia to consider the matter, but then the general impression was that Winiata should be given up. Nearly 300 natives were present and the discussion was a very lengthy one. Only one chief of mark spoke in favour of shielding the murderer. Te Ngakau" said,-that as he had escaped from the Europeans it was clear that Heaven approved the act, and that he for his part would fight to defend him let tte consequences be what they might. "If the fire run through the fern," said Te Ifgakau, "I will not hesitate to strike the match." Tiria, the King's half-sister, strongly denounced the murder as a cold-blooded unprovoked crime, and was supported by all the chiefs of note. 'It is thought that the King would gladly give Winiata up, but that he fears lest, in doing so, he should provoke active enemies amongst his own party who would tumble down the throne. The meeting which will shortly be he?d at Kuiti may tions. It will be a stormy one, for great excitement prevails. The King party is quite divided in the matter. The Waikatos, whose land is already gone, are for defending Wynyard, even if it lead to war. The A T gatimaniapoto see things in a different liglit, as their lands are yet their own. Tapihana, of Kawhia, a notorious Kingite goes with the JSfgatimaniapotos in this matter, and that tribe is the stronger of the two both in numbers, and influence. —Alexandra Correspondent of Wailcato Times.