TITOKOWARU AS A PEACEMAKER,

New Zealand Mail, Issue 562, 11 November 1882, Page 13

TITOKOWARU AS A PEACEMAKER,

(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Haweba, November 8. The occasion of Tapa Te Waero visiting Okaiawato to present Titekowaru with a canoe, was utilised by the latter chief for the purpose of addressing a few words of instruction and admonition to his tnbe. The natives had been informed of the intention of the Government to lease the remaining portion of the Continuous Reserve, and doubtless, there were many who raised a murmur at the prospect. Titokowaru told people that they were in no way to resist whatever the Government chose to do; that, although the survey lines were taken through their standing crops, and encroached upon. • their dwelling, places, they were to be quiescent. The next subject upon yrhicb he addressed-them was the atock run-

ning on the reserve. He told them to be very cartful how they caught and sold horses, and, in catching a horse, to make sure that the beast was their own, and though it might be nubrandtd, they must recollect that it might plobably be the property of their pak*ha neighbors, and consequently great care must, be ased for that, and though they had suf fered loss through tbe'r horses having : been stolen by Europeans, they must not retaliate in kind., The address was a general recommendation for all to remain quiet and orderly, and, in cOT!oJußi6b, he rebuked those among his people who, ..to ~mako. themselves big in the ’eyes of* their European neighbors, were in the habit of -boasting that they were the owners of such and such a ' piece of land.