THE GOVERNOR AT WAIKATO.

West Coast Times, Issue 209, 21 May 1866, Page 2

THE GOVERNOR AT WAIKATO.

(From the " Southern Cross.") The Governor left Hamilton on Wednesday last for Raglan, to embark for Wellington, but failed to induce Thompson to accompany him — indeed, it is clear that there is nothing further from tho thoughts of that wily chief.' Te Ua and Te Heuheu accompanied the Governor to Hamilton, and of course returned with him to Raglan, but the effect of their presence was lost by the rebels refusing to see tho Governor. Two Waikato chiefs, Takerei to Rau and Te Aho accompanied the Governor back to Raglan. Of the conversation between tho Governor and Thompson we aro unable to give any report through European sources. A native, who has had access to a good source of information, gives us the following: — "The Governor asked Thompson to go on with him to Wellington, and Thompson replied, " I will think of the matter ; and, perhaps, I will follow on." Thompson, and the party of his tribe who had come with him to Kirikirioa (Hamilton,) said to the Governor, 'Is it true what we havo heard, that you are going to make war at Kawhia, Waikato, and tho Thames ; The Governor replied that it was not his intention to make war at those places. The Governor did not consent to tho Maoris fighting, but he consented that they 'should dig kauri gum. . He consented that they should dig on confiscated territory. Thompson said he did not wish to fight, that he was living quietly and desired to remain so. Topaia (the Princess Sophia) wrote a note to the Governoi, asking for some modecine. The Governor sent some. Rewi and Matutaera do not intend to pay the slightest regard to any assurances the Governor may make, because he has so often broken his word to them. They hold out in consequence of the confiscation. Thompson will not go to Wellington. He kuows his position too well to move off thore. He would then bo called by the Maoris the Governor's dog. If ho 'were to follow the Governor he would be as bad as Te Ua, who is taken about as a captive. The tribes would look on Thompson as a tangata maminga. (Our informant rendered maminga as " too much gammon,") In saying that perhaps he would follow, Thompson was merely making an evasive reply, instead of giving a flat denial. When Thompson asked the Governor if he was going to make war at Kawhia, Waikato, and the Thames, he must have been fishing for information, or poking fun at the Governor, for he knows quite well that there is now no means of making war at these places, if the Governor were willing. The Governor seems to have given leave to the natives to dig gum on the confiscated land, which is rather a dangerous concession, as the digging of gum for a while gives, according to the native idea, a right of ownership. The natives are all likely to come into collision with the military settlers. It is notice able that although Lewi and Vatutaera fled to the bush and would not see the Governor, they wero near enongh to get tho jrincess Sophia (who is with them) to write for some medicine, which the Governor sent from the medical chest of tho Eclipse. The Governor's visit to Kawhai has thus ended in utter failure. That portion of the natives yet in arms have refused to see him, and Thompson's position is not altered in the slightest.

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