THE NATIVE DISTURBANCE IN THE WAIKATO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6098, 3 June 1881, Page 5

THE NATIVE DISTURBANCE IN THE WAIKATO.

TAWHIAO INTERVIEWED. Tby telegraph.—own correspondent."! Alexandra, Thursday. Notwithstanding the scare at Kihikihi, all is peaceable there. Tawbiao arrived in the close vicinity of the townshipyesterday, whereyour correspondent had an interview with him. I am inclined to believe that Mr. Tole and. other Europeans being ordered oft' does not emanate from Tawhiao, but from Wahanui, who strongly disapproves of Rewi's proceedings. He told Rewi at Hikurangi that his legs and his arms should be cut off, so that he could neither walk for or have hands to receive the money of the pakeha. Tawhiao is about proceeding to Pirongia, on a pigeon-shooting expedition. He is now waiting the arrival of Major Mair, whom he wishes to accompany him. Tawhiao has apparently the greatest confidence in that gentleman. There is no doubt his removal from this district was a public misfortune.

THE KINGITE MOVEMENTS. A correspondent writes as follows from Kihikihi: —'• Tlie action of the King natives has caused some little excitement here, but no uneasiness, being one purely of isolation, and so far from aggressive as even to insist on repayment to Europeans of the cost they have been at in fencing and seeding land on the southern side of the confiscation boundary line. All Europeans are ordered off the lands south of the line, and Rewi and other leading Ngatimaniopoto chiefs have been ordered to leave the neighbourhood of European settlement and retire to the interior : neither will Rewi be suffered to hold the grant for the land on which his house here is situated. Tole's and Ross' cattle also have been driven in from lands south of the line. .