Native Meetings.
♦ TAWHIAO OBEYS THE (JOVERNMENT.
Auckland, to-day. Tawhiao has received a letter from the (lovernment, remonstrating with him for calling so many meeLings of natives, pointing out that injury is caused by the wasteful expenditure of food and money. It is said Tawhiao has sent messengers to tribes, telling them of tho instructions lie lias received, and stating he will be arrested in case he disobeys them ; but in that case they are not to think of him, but leave all matters to the care of Providence.
The " liiauyalnm Times" states that nearly the whole of the work on the Midland Railway is let in sub-contracts, and owing to the number of applications the prices sire so low that many of the hands cannot earn move than from 20s to 25s per week ; while in other instances work is undertaken by parties of men who, after laboring at it for a short time, throw it up in disgust and march off, leaving the contractors to benefit by flic work done,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5572, 18 September 1889, Page 2
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171Native Meetings. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5572, 18 September 1889, Page 2
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