OPUNAKI.
---.••-■.--' ~..i Saturday.- --! The natives are, ploughing at Qpu* nafee the Armed Constabulary pad-dook.-'—They^state^jthat they^will plough right through ,^ha middle of the redoubt if bullocks to go. There is a feeling here that the natives are determined on rising, and are doing; everything/ to provoke hostilities, aricf that the iWaikeltds are concerned in the affair. 'The action 61. iheriGDVernmentf in preparing to put men on the railway meets with general approval ( here, aftd is considered to be the only true civiliser of the Maori. ! i Ploughing at Tapuniae is 'being pro-, ceeded with, The " Armed Constabulary have orders" to put the ploughmen off to-morrow. Had not this order been issued, ; the settlers would have taken action. The Pai-ihaka men bought a large number of spade.s and axes at New Plymouth yesterday. ! "'' - ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 822, 30 June 1879, Page 2
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131OPUNAKI. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 822, 30 June 1879, Page 2
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