NATIVE AGGRESSION ON WEST COAST.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7120, 19 July 1886, Page 2

NATIVE AGGRESSION ON WEST COAST.

NATIVES BUILDING ON SETTLER'S LAND.

TKOK UVAiIUAND OTHER

XA 'JIVES AKIIESTED. j Our on uoiTo^ondent on ibo ficeno furnishes tha followiag account of tie altiir: — Ou Sunday ui.irninr, four or five hiiruheit utitives .^aembied at Mr. ll<<. ti 'o ! .'I id', luiiuir;^ tcntb aril ot!i;r h\> • ;« i •" ith them, il:;i nnVrhl ■•oddy piopi 'd Ft hiiiHiu'j; a laig^ wlure. iS.-rtrcvit J \.u ! 1 m, with i'oi!u»-(Jo'-nt.i'i'e:, "Ji. 114 , ulv v. ml [\ Mi'-lin v. er ih'i". , ' 1 i iu;>'''{f) ,:i:"t the 1 ins' pro ni'i "i 1 ' 11-, b'lt 'vi ).■ pro -.•■ i^ d iYii is <i"i'! ■. v , Sivth- other n.ilh^-j pifsonf. Itis^c-i'Liir . Pardy beiii'- v 1 b.U w iy to N.'W !Il\:uuit! I l\:uuit ii uanciujtt it RJmu ,>y wii.-, ..n i nmi e\.:>ei:te 1 lo ba on tlio l;i'oU",il l>y 3 pin. Ii ilia ni'\iutiu3 tho sttkrs !u',(.ii to c mijrejj.itc iv lir^o nu.i.bers (1110.10 2>)~)). iad some of then: sut to work to uri\-e on' tiio Maofi horses and bullocks to Hie pound. This led to tho natives interferinj;. In .1 i"'t\v cs^s blows weie exchanged. Tli's vas inline 1 it\dy atoppel b} r the excr.ri'is of thu police, il"ss>rd. BiM^c, Yorin 1 , Li^in^ston. .1.P., and boine other of thu cooh r Bottlers. Tlio excitoniont kept o-i i:icreasinsr, and, matters looking seriou.", it was deemed advisable by the Justices 01 the Peace, and polico to swear in special cons'.abler, a pint lor which thcru were plenty ol voliinteerd. The police then proceeded to take their men, und after a slight scnlllj Iho arrests •.vero made, Titoko-» aru, Nguhina, and some others bein^ taken anil inarohed to Miuaij, wh.-iu Inspector Pctrdy was met with cOHStables i om Opunake, and the piisoneid were handod over. Tim bulk or tho n itives were told that i£ they left the place no further arrchts would be made. Thoy then dispersed, taking most of their effects with them. The Bultlers pulh-J down the whaie which had buui eiccleil during the day, and vvhon eveuin^ closed tiie pi ice presented the app.iir.aice of a deserted campiiU ground. Theic were between 00 and 70 -horses impoun.ied. The Press As'.oci ition telegraphs : — So far the natives taken are N^ahina, Tito Ivowaru, Kor.iakii, Turabos, and throe others. All the lea ling ineu were taken. Tho remaining M. 1 vis, after being warned, loft liastiu's property, and the Europeans at once pulled ilown the whare which was being constructed. It is reported that the nativca puipose enteriug on land atOakuraaud Puugarehn, but Inspector Parrly has been instructed to rebeut it with a ti: vi hand. The Coustabuinry in Wellington were under orders to leave for the disturbed distiict on Sunday ni^ht by the s.s. Stella, but the order has since been countermanded. TE WIIITI ARRESTED. The arrest of To Whiti may be hourly expected, ofiicial instructions having been issued in Wellington to that eil'ect.

Tho IJinernoa is not expected from Onehunga until to-morrow, and sho will leave the same day for Wellington, taking Mr. Sunupl back to his P.ulimiientary duties. Before leaving Wellington Vr. Samuel got a pair on all the leading questions, hia vote being given in favor of the Government in all Government questions.

The Maoris at Bell Block and the other settlements in tho neighborhood of New Plymouth arp beginning to suffer from a shortness of food, thoy having exhausted their supplies in entertaining the Maoii processions from Parilwka. This fact coming to the eats of To Whiti two tons or potatoes were sent up here last week, and the Bell Block natives ore now pu,ci'iing moro of the s 11113 class of pro visions from Manaia.

On the steamer ?tloa airiviug at the breakwater dining Sunday niichr, with a c u'go of coal for Iho gas works, she an nounced the event by bbwiuic her whistle. L'tie Moa is not v iurgo \ esael by .my means, In r form living b>nvly itisct-rniblo .ijaiuttt the loo'nin^ coicfuto of the breakwater \ hen \iewed from town, but hir whiiitld or hoin excels in loudn:ss that 01 any of tlio vtss.ls which cill her.-, not e\i ;i c.-icepting the W.ikatipii. i'he strange noise is b.ud to haveiliy.urbed m.my puoj>l ■ in town, a:>d it was soiimtimo b.-fo^e tb^y could ci\'lit th.it the a! inn w is in^rcly the Mo 1 signal, 1. lj- il at bhc liad anived.

After sis months 1 trial, tho railway a'ttl.oiities have decided to stop the trains running to P.itea of an evening or leaving there of a morning. It was a great con venience to those in Pat^a who had occ-'bion to ruu up to New Plymouth on business and bo able to return the same diy ; but the number who used the traiu v. ere 110% we suppose, sufficient to mail is it worth w hilo continuing it. The samo reason, wo expect, wilt apply to liaweia, and therefore on tho score of expense it would be better peiluips ior the train to stop at Stratford of a night, for the tiadie between that town anil Waugauui is small indeed. By knocking off the evening ttain between WWarm r mvi und ILiwira i.nothcr saving might b-j made : for few use il,i 1 , prefeiring the 1.101 ning oa'j to travel by. In time, b}' c.i'.iwnj; o'i ia this economical uiannei, the trains o.tm be stored, aud then the expenditure <.n the niilwa^ can be reduced to almool nil.

Mr. W. V. Bucklaad, oae of tho "stonewallers" of the Now Plymoith Harbour Loan Bill, gave a gniphic account tin other night in tho House of a class of men who ask for work at tho sawmills up North. .Many of them, ho said, worked exceedingly well for a few hoi"'s — sometimes for afow minutes — and then aa! Ed to bo allowed to iro to the store ior v few things. After getting them, (hoy departed foe, other fi 'Ms, and roJmig more was seen of thorn. Ai.uther cl>i«s h.id a father or a mother to In- -y every year. And these were the ji .),)lo ll at (ho bill (tho Workmen's Wages Extension Dill) proposed to protect. Tho Premier refused to believe that the picture of tho working classes diawn by the hou. member for Fr.inklyn North was a true one. Ho did not behove they were at all as improvident as had been repicaenti d. Mr. IJuckl.ind afterwards explained that h'> di t not speak of the majority of the winking ini'ii; he only icfeired to a ctrtaiu wel'kn jvsn cl.isj.

From Jlr. JS.nmiel we icam tint for several years an endeavour has been made to alter the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives in order to make impossible tho repetition 01 such acts by uhiuhtho New Plymouth Harbour Loan lii'l was t ilkod outlast Thiii&day. As the St'.^.diiij; Oidura aie at present, they are of lon used for tho purpose of preventing tin- will of Parliament from taking effect, and ot en. bliug unprincipled politicians to talk out measures which they know are appiovcd oL" by tho rest of tho lluuso, but a",iiiibt which for some reasons thoy tlu'inb Ives lrivo an iiihupeiahlo objection, (.'tiier membera have in eonsriiuence to see their own measures delayed, turouah thuso

•• btoiuuvallera" being afraid to sro to a divisioi, It might bo added that (Ailoiiel Triiiiblc. Mr. Ilursthousoand ]\[r. Uiickl..nd havo performed a task which cannot fail to b iug them into discredit with their fellow munbeia. These members' constituentb albO are uJL'eoted, i'ol iv im unre.isoii.ible 10 e::pecl ili.it thc-o whom thet»e iLet.ib.-r-'i iv v to bitiei Jy op]>on(?il « ill ahsi.-it diem in .■>. lading ..iiy iD'.'ajiue which they might ii.ive in in.3'l for the good_ of their own )l-U1C81.7.