IMPORTANT NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 40, 1 August 1872, Page 2

IMPORTANT NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

We believe the following to be- an;'accurate statement of the fiir.ts which gave rise to the rumotfr wifch regaftd t&Mtewi a&d Tβ- Kooti;' It appears that"some three weeks since Te : Koofci went r 0 Moltaa in seurch of some chief j who wonld show himjjnare sympathy than he rnei with at Tβ -Kuiti. Rewi accem ' for-tbe reJieon that We feeN, to » certain extent respOnsibJe for We are i inclined to the belief that the recently-pub-lished accounts are, if not absolute inventions, fonndect upon trivial* Circumstances. Our correspondent at Alexa.ndxa.iiifo4-nvs us that Major-Mair has returned to that township from an excursion. lie is reported to have] said that he had been a good deed with "the j Hauhaus, and that there was a marked im- j provemetit in their feeling towards tho i Pakeha, and that although some of the villages had not been visited by a Earopeau for many years, the inhabitants showed a j friendly spirit in every instance, with the exception of one.: At this plaoe a violent Ilauhau puity lives,, ..who took umbrage because one of the-party carried a rifle-. They argued.that they were- not permitted to carry arms in. the- European settlements,'and-, on these grounds insisted 1 that the party should either return and , go by Cambridge or give np the gun to be sent back to Alexandra. The difficulty was got over by argument,.an ! the party, proceeded. The- same: pea,»le were concilitory in their manner when the party passed their place on-the return journey.