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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3523, 26 August 1880, Page 2

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[prom our own correspondent.] August 24. — The Ngatiporo Contingent of A.C.'s, who have been stationed at White Cliffs, passed through here on Friday last (in charge of Sergeant Balland) en route to New Plymouth, 10 proceed to Wellington, their term of enlistment, viz., one year, being up, where they will, I believe, be paid off. They were accompanied on the march by several of the dusky female sex. I suppose it was policy last year to put them on pay at 6s. 6d. per day, whilst plenty of the Europeans in the Colony were out of work.

The relief, consisting of twenty of the A.C.'s from the depot, arrived here from Waitara this morning (in charge of Sergeant Balland), and after partakiug of dinner at the Star Hotel, proceeded on to Pukearuhe. Some of our district Te Whiti-ites are back since the August meeting, but are not going to stop here long, as they leave again this week for Parihaka, and will not come back again. The only natives that will be left between Pukearuhe and Waitara will be tKe Government party that never go there. I have conversed with several of the Te-Whiti-ites, and their faith in the prophet is as great as ever.

I hear that several of the ratepayers on this side of the Waita^a are seriously contemplating holding a meeting to take into consideration the advisability of forming a separate county — viz., from Waitara River to Mokau — however, more of this subject anon.

A sad accident happened to a little girl of Mr. Burkes to-day. The mother had taken a boiler of hot water off the fire and left it on the floor, she then went to some work outside, and it appears that while she was away the little girl backed into the boiler, scalding the lower parts of her body a good deal. Mr. Burke, who was in the reom, but did not see her fall in, immediately pulled her out. She is still very bad.