NATIVE.
♦ An Auckland correspondent of the " Lyttelton Times" furnishes the following :— If just now there is nothing very exciting in native news, careful consideration of the status in quo can hardlj fail to be both interesting and instructive. He would be a bold individual that should prophesy that all our Maori difficulties have for ever vanished, for ! with an excitable people like the abori- ! gines, events may again occur to rouse i fast subsiding restlessness. It is, however, capable of demonstration that the natives are now, generally speaking, far more inclined to peaceful avocations than they have been for many years. Even the remnants of the King party appear to have abandoned all thought of creating annoyance, at all events for the present. Tawhaio, finding he has nothing to hope for from Rewi, no longer resides on land belonging to that chief, and has retired with his people in the direotidn of the West Coast. His son, Tv Tawhaio (a fine young man of 19 or 20 years), may regret the change of residence, because it will interfere with his penchant for one suit of new clothes per diem. Waikato settlers may imagine they are gainers by the removal of dangerous neighbors. You will have heard of the submission of another interior tribe under the chief, Hauhaua, whose territory gave shelter to Te Kooti after the latter was beaten from Tokano (in Taupo) by Henaro Tokomoana in the winter of 1860. Tbe territory referred to is exceedingly rough and inaccessible, except a portion bordering the west side of the great Taupo LaLe, i.e., Te Moana, Hauhaua and his people have offered to construct a large part of the Groat Trunk Road which is some day to connect Auckland with Wellington. Thomas Walker None, the hero of Judge Manning's interesting book, " Heke's War in the North," is here. He is now a very old man, and a fine specimen of Maoris of bygone days. Though old, he is hale and hearty. Always loyal, as you are aware, he formerly rendered the colony invaluable service, and his great personal influence^ it is which has kept quiet all the Maoris^ living between Auckland and the North Cape, even when Hauhau emissaries from Titokowaru and the King party traversed the North in search of proselytes. The aged chief holds the rank of Captain, and came down to Bee Mr M'Leau for perhaps tbe last time.
NATIVE.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3208, 25 May 1871, Page 2
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