THE NATIVE DISTURBANCES IN THE NORTH.
(Br Tbmobaph.) New Plxhottth, June 20. The is nothing fresh m nitiye affaire. The Normanby Volunteers hare completed their redoubt, which is a fine piece of work. The members of the Armed Constabulary who arrived - here yesterday proceeded to Oakura this morning. Auckland, Jane 20. A deputation waited on Colonel Whitmore at Hamilton, Captain Dawson and other settlers offering the. service of 90 men to the Government as Volunteers m a party. Colonel Whitmore stated that he would recommend the Government to accept their services and to arm them with Enfields, which would be replaced m six weeks by Sniders, a consignment of which is arriving from Home. He said that the Qovernmeat recognised their duty of defending the aettlere m the country districts. Such had been the spirit of the Volunteers called that Government had refused the serrices' of six hundred old com' rades, besides thousands of recruits. _
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Timaru Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 1482, 21 June 1879, Page 2
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155THE NATIVE DISTURBANCES IN THE NORTH. Timaru Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 1482, 21 June 1879, Page 2
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