SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5896, 31 December 1880, Page 4

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, December 30th. I learn by private telegram from Opunake ■ that it is now generally known that Captain. Knollys' mission to Parihaka was to invite Te Whiti to meet the Governor either in Wellington or Taranaki with a view of discussing thealleged grievances of the Natives, and arrivingat a permanent amicable understanding. It is* said that Te Whiti received the visitors very sullenly, and refused to read the Governor's letter, and on its purport being conveyed to him • verbally he said, " The potato is cooked, and a . cooked potato does not discussitßgnevancDswith the fire which cooked it." He Baid all Goyernors were alike, and they governed in the interest of the Pakehas, not of the Maoris. The Government had taken his land and) his men. The former had been sold, and the latter imprisoned. He said a great deal more, the purport of his long rigmarole being that he declined to meet the Government or hold any communication excepting at Parihaka. C».pt. Knollyn is now on his way back to Wellington. There seems some doubt whether the precedenca given to Sir A. Gordon's title of High Commissioner of the Western Pacific over that of Governor of New Zealand was not in. the first place purely accidental. In somedocuments the precedence is given to the title of Governor, and in others to Commissioner. It is curious that in all proclamations in the department of one Minister, who fxj,re;s'y. sent over to aßk the precise style the Governor preferred, the title of Governor stands firat.

Naseby, December 30th. The bazaar in connection with the Episcopal Church was successfully opened yesterday. Over LIOO was taken on the first day.