MISCELLANEOUS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 117, 28 September 1868, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Ex-Pkisoneks. — Intelligence has reached Napier that the e^enpuel prisoners from the Chatham Islands appear inclined to take up their permanent abedj at Pukutapu, ns they are now busily employed in deajing the bush for cultivation. The Uriwera arc, in t!ie meuntimo, supplying them with provi sions. "fc'TiiE Waikanae Natives. — An ouirag* ■"was committed at Waikanae thr other day by thenatives. Thefollowingare the brief particulars : — Mr Jenkins, who has two half-caste daughters, was ordered to give them up to the natives by on^ Soloraan of the Puket.'tpu hapn, Ngatiawa, threatening, in case of" refusal, that they would bura the placa. On his declining to accede to their modest request, they proceeded to vavry their threat into execution ; burning the frame oi a new building in the course of erection aad a quantity of timber. This Wiis at Huruki, aud the land belonged to his cidldren, having been inherited from their mother. Mr Jeukins' own place at Waikanae was not meddled with. He states that the natives who committed this outrage were Hau-haus, and had no claim to the land on which the building was being erected,, Mr Jenkins having had the undisputed occupation of the land for the last thirty years.