WHAKATIWAI.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1758, 21 August 1874, Page 3

WHAKATIWAI.

.Ot7S OWN COBMSPONBENT). Jzvi) •-vli ■ '- ■ ". Thursday. y,' Since £iy last the talk has commenced, ftenjtVas suddenly interrupted by the rain,'but. has since .being resumed. All the* principal" chiefs (except Tarapipipi, whb te'sick) talked about the land, repudiation fon a ■ small scale being, fore•hadowed,. -All Government advances were 1, jfco'/'be placed on Cape Colville, . "^TiVkawau, and,-other blocks on the Cora- ' pnandet peninsula. All the speakers denied^haying receiyed' anything on accoiint ;p^ {6hihemuri or Te Ar6ha. Mr. l^tackay then.aelectipd a few of the leading nj,en ,^rho. had jeceired,advances on the Ohinemuri lands and .T«- Aroha block, and,namfd them. t Te Hira made an. apjgeal a^f inisericordam,, and said thaC he hadnoniore land, and had had ho sharo of the payments for the Waikawau and Mokau blocks. Mr. Mackay refreshed his (Te Hira's) memory in-thos& respects, and plainly showed that he had, through certain relatives, received both money and goods,/ He also jnformed Te Hira that he-could hold his own pieces of land at ■OMromuri but he could no longer hold the-, tribal lands: they had been sold; -Ohinemuri and Te Aroha must now. b» 'opened. A great discussion followed. There,. is little doubt, however, that the purchasers which have not be. completed will ioon be so, and, that Ohinemuri and |

"Te A'roha (with the exceptiondffiecWs'V sary reserves) will soon become the pro-! pcrty of the Crown. The natives'have been beaten on every point, and there is! great consternation in their camp thisevening. The general impression is that the tipper, country, including Ohinemuril and 1 fArohaV will "' shortly be' opened. ■ „,-rf,;:-v ftr -, >„,;• ..'.