FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15562, 20 March 1914, Page 10

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

x LOYAL MAORIS. .... J J3OAT FOB TaiTWAIKATO. (Pwm the HERALD of March 21, 1864.) *vVe understand thai, after the recent engagement betweon tlio loyal Arawas and the Ngatiporaus, which took place on the Bth,-'. tlw latter retired to their settlements "n the East (Joast; but there is is little doubt but that they have only done bo in order to recruit their numbers and return in irresistible force upon the — as yet— victorious Arawas. So unmistakably has this tribe shown its loyalty to the Queen, in forcibly refusing permission to King natives to pass over its territory on thoir way to the rebels at Manngatautari, that we cannot bnt consider it entitled to every assistance from the Government in repelling the attack of a powerful enemy, tho risk of which it has incurred by voluntarily taking up arms in our cause. We are glad to learn that Mr. J, (J. Frith has, after some little trouble, succeeded in purchasing for the Wiiiknto Kivor tho frondagai, a powerful paddlewheel boa!,, built, for the Murray River. 'Hie vessel is of 50 horse-power and every way adapted for the work requred. The uteimer Novelty, the property, of P. M. ttnssell and Co., which was coming over for sale to the Now Zealand Government was driven back a second time into , Port Jackson by stress of weather. Her owners have decided on not making a third attempt.