NEW PLYMOUTH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 806, 11 June 1879, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH.

June 9. A telegram saya that the Government are loaing no time in sending a defence force for Taranaki. Another detachment of Armed Constabulary arrived yesterday, and several more, detachments are to arrive. A small detachment of ten men advanced to Tatamarika on Sunday morning, and about (seventy were sent to Oakura yesterday. Opunaka will be reinforced in a day or two. Nearly all volunteers are supplied with arms, and are now being drilled. There are in Normanby and Hawea 180 infantry and 90 cavalry. In Oarlylo over 100 were enrolled. The Natives resumed ploughing

operations on Mr. Courtney's, farm on Saturday morning. - They have seized the hay on the farm. The Carlyle correspondent of the Herald wires that the settlers about ten miles up the the Patea river have been warned not to go upon their lands. Hitherto the Natives at Tauroa'a place have been very cordial, but on Saturday they were repellaut. They warned the settlers not to proceed to. Tauroa, and said they had better return, which they did. The matter has been reported to the Government. It is supposed that the Natives are erecting a pah on the Otaiaopaku Block/ June 10. The Maoris are still ploughing Courtney's and Bayley's land at Opunake. The natives report a tunnel as being constructed from Parihaki to the face Jcf the river cliff as a means of retreat. Mr Frazer, a phrenologist, has interviewed To Whiti at Parihaka, and was kindly received. He saw no preparations for defence, and was told that Te Whiti would not fight. The Maoris, in addition to ploughing Courtney's land, have now seized his hay. This Day. Nothing new to report respecting the natives, except they are not so bounceable as they were. The arrival of Armed Constabulary and the arming of seltlers have somewhat frightened the Maories, and taken a lot of superstition out of their heads. Sixty Armed Constabularly are encamped at Oakura, and eighty stationed at Opunake. The local volunteer force now numbers 580. The Maovies appear unable to reconcile our arming with Te Whiti's prophecies of peace. Seventy-three volunteers were swoiMp' in at Manutahi North yesterday. The general arming of the district is producing a salutory effect on the native mind. Some sensible' natives allege they cannot understand the reason of the ploughing. A great native meeting is to bs held at Parihaka on IBth instant. Europeans will be allowed to attend.