THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.
{PER PRESS AGENCY.) Hew Plymouth, Tuesday. Seventy-eight more armed constables have arrived from Waikato. Sixty men are encamped at Oakura, and eighty are stationed at Opunake. The Taranaki Volunteer Force now numbers SSO. Mr. Breach, the Opunake miller, has twenty tons of flour, the produce of Maorigrown wheat, ready to be despatched to Parihaka.
The Maoris appear puzzled, and cannot reconcile our arming with Te Whiti’s prophecies of peace.
Seventy-three volunteers were sworn-in at Mauulahi North, yesterday. The general arming of the district is producing a salutary effect on the native mind. Some of the more sensible natives admit that they do not know the reason of the ploughing. A great meeting ia to be held at Parihaka on the 18th instant, at which Europeans will be permitted to be present.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5678, 11 June 1879, Page 2
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134THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5678, 11 June 1879, Page 2
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