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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3140, 5 June 1879, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES. MAILS will he closed at the Chief Postoffice, Devon-street, as follows :—: — For An^klan-1 and Northern Ports per s.s. Wellington, on Saturday, at 10 a.m. For Npl<?om nnd Southern Ports, per s.s. Wellington, on Wednesday, at 5 p.m. L. Von Rotter, Chief Postmaster.

A telegram received from Wellington this morning states that the Stella had left there for New Plymouth, with fifty-five men of the Armed Constabulary on board. A native meeting, we hear, has been held at Urenui, at which the occupation of the confiscated land was discussed, when it was decided not to carry out the orders issued by Te Whiti. The s.s. Taiaroa, with the 'Frisco mail, arrived in the roadstead last night, at 11 p.m., after a good run of 11 hours from the Manukau Bar, against a fresh head wind. After being tendered she proceeded South at one this morning. A sensational report was in circulation in town this afternoon that the natives at Waitara were arming, and that fifty of them had rifles. On enquiry at the Native Office if there was any fresh news, we were assured that they had no information to give us, so it is to be hoped that the above is not true. On Tuesday last His Excellency the Governor visited the Telegraph Office here, and held a personal conference withKewi in Auckland. His Excellency said he was coming to see Kewi in Auckland, and asked him not to leave till he arrived there with the Ministers, they then coul \ come to a solution of the existing difficulties. Rewi consented to remain till the Governor came. The natives have given notice to Sub-In-spector Morrison, who is in charge of the A. C Force at Opunake, that they intend to commence at once to plough up the Government paddock there. The natives are getting bolder and bolder, and it looks as if matters were coming to a crisis when they commence to destroy Government property. Intelligence was received in town yesterday afternoon that the natives had commenced to plough up the land of Mr. W. Bayly, at Te Namu, about a mile this side of Opunake. It is the land lately occupied by the Opunake Flax Company, and used as a bleaching ground. It is also stated that warning has been given to the proprietor of the Opunake Hotel to leave i the place, and the native intimated at the same time that men would be sent to plough up the paddock at the back of the building today. The hotel is within gun shot of the stockade, and where a force of Constabulary is stationed, so that if this land is ploughed up it will be done as an act of defiance to the Government, being actually tinder the very eyes of an armed force.