NATIVE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 57, 6 February 1884, Page 3

NATIVE NEWS.

. ■'■ , (BY ; TELEGRAPH.) '; . (UNIfEE PRESB ASSOCIATION.) ? j j<;i i ' . ..il aA^CKLANj), February 5. 1 1 Some £4000 has been collected , by jtjhe natives^ towards Ta.\yhiap's pjjojected mission to^Eii^lffivd', for Svnic¥arran«e---mentiß are : : nearly) completed^ r. I ; %h«\ Kiogites deny that Mr Mcrßeth itistigated or is connected with the mission;" llewi, it is stated, has replied to = itbe Native Minister concerning the stoppage of his pension that he does not care, he never solicited it. Tawhiao,Rewi, and Te Weoro have - invited Sir George Grey to come- up to see them jto talk over 8 matters. They want to know whether a pension can.be stopped apart from general misconduct, and a reference to Parliament. The pension is £200 p or. annum. . > :-■ ■■"•' Napier, February 5. A curious Maori case, which should have come on tbJß;mprning at thawvil sittings of the 'Resident Magistrate's Court? was postponed >i>y consent for ?i fortnight. One Maori sues another for' |£100 damages for the seductiota of the wife'of bhe former by the latter. 'The case*; is exciting 'considerable interest among the Maoria. ■ '"- '.''■ '■ '■' i The Porangahau natives have resolved not to put any more lands the Court.- : •' : < •\ r ' r: " : ;