NEW PLYMOUTH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 800, 4 June 1879, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH.

'• ■■ : * Monday, 2.35. A settler from Oakura has just arrived m town, and says the natives warned him to leave the place at onoe. He says they 1 shewed a knife to hia children and frightened them. The Oakura people are talking of coming m, and there is an uneasy feeling m the town respecting the affair. The fact of the natives coming on to land which Europeans occupy look's very serious. ? At a meeting of Magistrates'held this morning to consider what steps should be taken about the native outrage, they decided to inform the Government of the serious consequences which might ensue if the matter was not promptly 1 dealt with. Two others settlers m the Oakura district have received notice ;to clear off their land. Tait and Elliott, of Waitara, have received notice that their land will be ploughed to-morrow. '.■'■■ Greenway, a farmer at Okato, has just arrived m town for conveyances to bring m hia family. He say 8 that two Maoris called and ordered him to leave, one of them exhibiting a knife. It is reported m town that Te Whiti is at the bottom of the trouble, he having told the Maoriß to scatter themselves all over the land. Great anxiety is felt m town, and the Maoris say they will shortly visit New Plymouth. The natives have ordered William JBagley off his land at Stoney River, and have sent to Te Whiti to know whether they shall plough the land of Captain Mace or Mr. Looney. It is stated that if they go on the land of either of these settlers that the law will be taken into their own hands,that the ploughs will be seized,' and ' the natives arrested for trespassing. The natives are turning julky. It is ■aid that the natives at Waitara and Urenui will plough up the farms of the settlers. A few other farmers at Oakura have received notice that their lands will be ploughed up. In fact it appears that notice has been given to all the owners of confiscated land. There is great difference of opinion as to what the natives really want or intend to do. Some who ought to know say that there will be no fighting, and that it is merely a question as to how far the natives can proceed, and without Government interference the settlers have been advised not to interfere with the plough-men.) There is nothing further of importance to report. At Waitara and Urenui the natives are. very bounceable. They come into the shops and say that m a few days everything will be theirs. Great uneasiness prevails all over the district as to what will be the result of this affair. , . The NMive at Oaknra say they have no ill-feeling to the Europeans, but Te Whiti has told them the land is to be theirs, and Europeans to be their[slaves, and they have faith m his words. The natives are still ploughing away at Mr. Courtney's land.