MAORI MATTERS.
A Maori called Jeremiah Bob, who killed another Maori at Wangaroa, came to town today to deliver himself to the authorities. Some negociations have been going on between the Government and the Native tribes, and it is supposed that the visit of the Governor had some influence in leading the Natives to insist upon the murderer coining to Auckland. The Kingites have written to the Govern ment refusing to allow vessels to enter Mokau, as agreed to by Wetere. Produce is being brought here daily by the Kingites for sale. The aukati is now broken, and produce is coming in fast. There is great competition amongst the storekeepers. The Maoris are reaping the benefit, obtaining 6s. 6d. per bushel for maize. The Government Land Purchase Commissioners in the Bay of Plenty district, Messrs. Davis and Mitchell, have completed negotiations for the purchase of the Puhi Block, near Maketu, containing an area of thirty thousand acres of the choicest arable . land on this coast.
Mr. Parris is negociating for the purchase of another large block of Native land, of between 60,000 and 100,000 acres in Taranaki. A Native chief says that it will take two years to survey the block. Intelligence has been received that the Waimate land dispute between the Natives has been settled quietly. The superstition of the Maoris is as surprising as their cool contempt of the law. From the Poverty Bay Standard of the 6th inst., we learn that a report has reached Gisborne of the murder of an old Native near Waiapu at Tuparoa. It seems a young fellow named Pehikuru was taken ill and died, his death being attributed to the witchcraft of an old man named Poihipi. Two men went to where the old man was living and found him sitting with a child on his knee; one of them then shot the pom old fellow through the breast, but as he did not fall, the other fired and killed him. At a runanga held afterwards, 150 were for condoning the murder, and fifty for giving the murderers up to justice, hut, in the meantime, the affair has been hushed up. The body was buried in the whare where the murder was committed. The murderers are said to he well-known. ’ 1
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4146, 4 July 1874, Page 6
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