NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 822, 30 June 1879, Page 2

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Nbw_ Plymouth, . Saturday. ' Information was brought into >t own' this morning that Wetere had ordered Mr. Short and his family to immediately leave Mukau. Mr. J. Jones proceeded to Mokad, m the Hannah Mokau,./to bring them back as soon as the steamer cau get there. The natives "who, liP 1868, were brought.HFrom the Chatham Islands and placed 1611 ; the other' sine of the Naunui, as a protection to 'the Bottlers from the Hanhaus, that were at Mokau, have long since become fanatic and believers mTe Whiti. It is these natives who have commenced ploughing up Mr. Bayley's at Waiti. . They haveeight bullocks and plbughs, ana -there are twenty-five at work. They are very impudent, and talk of stopping the .road to the White Cliffs next week^v^Thfjy say that they will send men to^oiiglrtip Captain Wilson's and Mr. Morgan's property. Some natives told a storekeeper at Urenui to clear out at once, for they intended to Jhave all that was there. One of the Constabulary, njeu'who! has i been m the habit of visiting Mokau occasionally, ■ and has- been re, , ceived by the' natives' in r W:inehdly manner went there last week; when he found the natives sullen, and they would, nofwlbeak to -him. iv /.; ' ;■••;;« ■■■■■■ Hawera, Saturday. A. native who has just come m says the Maoris will plough again as soon -as the weather clears up, perhaps to-nior* row. He is fishing for information, and wants to learn the probable treatment the husbandmen ; will receive" if [th^ey come again. He says some of the last crew will not volunteer again,, they were so scared the other day. 'One ploughman was m Hawera. yesterday,, swaggering about town as bold as brass. 1 He was not one of the leaders, but says they will come again, joined by other natives who have not tried their hands yet. A good smart ca.sligtt.tiou will probably be administered next time, and the ploughs i smashed. The attempt at seizing the Hawera land lias 1 not proved successful. Some leading Waimate .chiefs disclaim fall connection with the movement, and say, if their followers will not act wisely, they must«bide by the consequences : they will not help them. How they would have acted providing the, , movement was undisturbed by pakeltas, is another matter. ... „ ....... ... ,