IMPORTANT FROM OTAKI.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1984, 17 November 1863, Page 3

IMPORTANT FROM OTAKI.

[A portion of the following was issued iv an Extra on Saturday.]

A dispute, which appears threatening, has arisen umongst the Otaki Natives, relative to the sale of certain lauds to Dt Hewson and Thomas Dodds.

The King Natives expre-s a determination not to recognise the sale, to expel the buyers, and pull down their bouses. The following notificatiiou has been addressed by the Native? to the European settlers : —

Nov. 12, 1863. This is a proclamation of the Laws that are laid down by the runanga of Tainui for a crime that has occurred at Otaki. The crime is that land has been sold by the natives to the Doctor (Hewson) and Thomas Dodds. •

Those Europeans must go to

First law Wellington.

,Second Law. You must not disobey duving these days — even till Monday, (i.e., meaning that the parties mentioned would be allowed until Monday to go away.)

Third law. On the Tuesday, that is the day upon which the fence* and the houses will be broken up. Ka huri— Huri mutu, I turn, &c. Na Hebimia xk Tihi. Na Tonihi te Ra. Na te Peina Tahipara.

Na Honi tk Tiai, and all the Runanga of the King.

We understand that Walter Buller, Esq., K.M., staited for Otaki on Saturday, with a view to ascertain the real state of affairs. Mr E. Bakei the native interpreter at ihe R.M. Court, and Inspector Atcheson left town yes« terday morning partly on the same account, but also ior the purpose of making enquiry into certain recent breaches of the Arms Act.

" Our own correspondent" at Otaki, who has furnished us with the foregoing proclamation, does not appear to think there is any particular reason for alarm. He writes " that the natives are all quiet" and that there is no excitement.