FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20989, 28 September 1931, Page 4

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALDThe following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of September 28. 1881: If the attendance of members of the Auckland "Scottish Volunteer Comp an y does not improve soon the organisation will have to become a thing of the p& st - For several years it has been little more than a name. A large meeting of settlers was b®., ; at Hawera to consider what steps shou be taken during the present crisis wi , Te Whiti's natives." The opinion gene - ally expressed was that there would < no bloodshed, but that the safest to prevent an outbreak was by Iwj'S | armed and showing a bold front to t Maoris. A large number of bettlers en j rolled as volunteers and elected officers. -j If the Maoris mean to light, as som , maintain, they could swoop down up l ' ■ I the defenceless, and homestead a' J homestead would be desolated in a sin ? | night. The old chieftain' '1 \8 in very low spirits and states that | is not possible to control the y 0 "' 1 . f j people at Parihaka.. In the meant i .■ the Govemment is accepting recrul 4 v al ii. I a detachment is ready to go from »>e ... ington under Lieutenant Bennett. 5 A meeting of the railway men on stri in Christchurch was held yestera y* | Seventy were present and all were v f.jj firm in their intention to hold out, deputation waited on Messrs. Andre and Seddon, M.H.R.'s, who promised assist them. . The Ngati-Koi Maoris, on the Tham«,.| JRiver, who shot at a survey party »1 years ago, are jigain proving vei ' troublesome.