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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 3, 19 October 1872, Page 2

Next Saturday, and henceforward, the Standard will contain a supplement, until our arrangements are sufficiently, matured either for an enlarged form or for a twice a weak issue. The Rifle Club meeting to be held on Monday evening at Daly’s Temperance Hotel should be well attended. The emulative interest which, is taken in the desire of becoming a good shot to say nothing of the necessity of being master of our chief weapon of defence, renders it imperative that we should not be behind hand in this matter. Some day Gisborne will receive a friendly challenge ; and the more honor if she can so acquit herself in practice as to be able to give one herself.

Captain Porter returned from Waiapu last night, and reports all quiet. Captain Porter visited the two belligerent hapus, who had strongly fortified themselves, Paora Heinga in a large Pa, Tikapa, on the south side of Waiapu river, and Wiremu Keiha in two pahs on the north side. Every sign of friendly welcome was made by both parties, who, after detailing the cause of their quarrel, agreed to have Waiapu river as a boundary between them, and that neither should molest the other. It being understood that the Government would be communicated with. The primary cause of the quarrel seems to have been of an agrarian character, arising out of the partition of a small block of land, a year or two since, in winch the heads of the contending hapus are interested. It will be satisfactory to know that this disturbance is entirely confined to the Natives, and likely soon to subside altogether. The natives of one hapu offered to surrender their arms, but as both did not do so, Captain Porter, very prudently, declined to accept them.