NATIVES OBSTRUCTING PROSPECTORS.
AtroKiAND, January 19.
There it likely to be trouble to proapectorsin King Country. Tawhaio hat been advised to su© prospeotors for tr«ipass. Intelligence has first come from Kawhia that the local natives, acting under the influence of Tawhaio, have forcibly stopped three road partiei of prospectors working for Government on the road between Aotea and Ktwhia, beyond Kagltn. On Friday last the obstructing naMves took the whole of the camp •quipage, canoe and working tools belonging to the men and ordered thorn away, but promised that they would send the otnoe and effects by land next day. A meeting of na'iveg, at wh eh there were 200 present was htM at Aotea on Friday nigbt, when it was ieß-lvedto obstruct all road formation about the harbor. Of three part es two *tre headed by Europeans, l ne thirl lya Maori.
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West Coast Times, Issue 6118, 20 January 1886, Page 4
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