NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6143, 18 October 1881, Page 2

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

[By Telkgraph.] (FROM OUR OWN CORRKSPOSTOENT.) Wellington, October 17th. The opinion of authorities regarding Te Whiti's speech is that it indicates n disposition to draw back from the aggressive attitude assumed last month. Te Whiti's wliole tone was to trust in him and in Heaven, and not to use carnal weapons. The result of tho meeting does not affect tho Government policy. Mr Rolleston leaves again on Wednesday for Pungarehn. As several inaccuracies have appeared in some accounts of Mr jßolleston's interview with To Whiti, I may repeat that the result is authoritatively stated to be "unsatisfactory," not " satisfactory," as some accounts have it. Mr Bryco has arrived in town, and has been several times in conference with Ministers. The object has not transpired. Telegrams from tho West Coast report that the dissatisfaction among tho Parihaka Natives against Te Whiti is steadily increasing. They are deeply disappointed at the long delay in the arrival of promised, supernatural aid, and are beginning to fear they will lose all their land if they hold out against Government. They have been distinctly warned that they lire endangering their reserves if they persist in illegal obstruction to settlement. The correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, telegraphing from Okate, says :— " Iliad a long conversation yesterday with a Irighly-intelligent and well-informed halfcaste, intimately acquainted with affairs at Parihaka. His opinion is that To Whiti's mami is tottering, \\v\ he considers that fully one-third of the Natives now at Parihaka are from other parts if the Island, having no personal interest in tin; land in dispute on the West Coast, but ittracted to Parihaka by belief in Te Whiti's supernatural power to relievo the .vliolo Native race. The faith of those men s becoming shaken, and my informant's ipinion is that unless To Whiti shortly justiies their belief in him they will leave Pari laka in disgust. A Maori yesterday pro>oiinded tin* theory to me :—Assuming tho Maoris possess a legal right to fence, and the 'oncers are shot by tho Constabulary, a charge >f murder would lie .against the person giving ■lie order to shoot. lam inclined to think Te tVhiti has advice to this effect. Some months igo a well-known Wellington Justice of the ?eacccameupto Parihaka. On his return he was ;ery silent about the or object result of his visit. . have ascertained lie camo as an emissary of a veil-known Dunedin and Wellington firm of olicitors, offering Te Whiti legal advice. I ,m informed by a person present at the inter■iew that Te Whiti snubbed him tremenlously, and would not listen to his proposal. )n his return to Wellington, Government aye him an appointment in tho Parliament Juildings."