LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 149, 22 June 1881, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[rat Rahohe, June 18. .^V-iarge fie&ting^ssembledMt Pairibaka yesterdayicto: iwelctfme the released prisoners.— These were all coH_ct_dAoß the^irieeting' piade Tej Whiti addresied them, at interval^ during tb^ IJ tf^, 10 aWd !i: tliey;;did not disperse till evening. jPJe. speeches reviewed events during the. -.pvt four jears, and intim»tedV»'that oall important things had (happened* in tbe month of June — the^mfeetiing of Waitara, tb'e%rrest J of the-p'lougmeh, the imprisonments oi. the- fencing parties and tbe return of all tbe priaonTraiT'TH^^nia do]ae l ird b_M, tbe . atrife was for liberty. t &9|rer,nr ment^ere'-ilone-to wame x shotiid further trouble. eqsue.^JTbe land ■bould be returWedJ^e 'tome as the men. The _prisoners r , shonbi .rise „in inS&rpnce.^nS'viie^European* lose nufhority over, tbe Maoris; > <•-. Mr.YSorenson*, the Mormon Elder •distributed' tracts' and attempted to address; tbe meetingV Some of the ti^jts were torn up and the elder refused a bearing. . Y - cTesterday the iiatives living near Te^-Pit-'p'ara obstructed ;ihe ; Ae'jtt'.en-". gag^d^n^m^lling :^tHe 7road. '' itfie.' grayel pit waiji^penea^on. V one .of tbe wheat .fields j and tbe natives collected togetberin 1 tbei pit 1 and refused to move, so thit' the then bad to desist forking;- "'■'■-''" 5" ;; - -■ /W The .Sieeting! wat interupted to- - daybyrainvj -l >y-i:-\ '-...•.' ■■ <-- .*o<k,oJ ,^mo^'^i 1B 'A ] A severe ctorm_of _wind^ and _rain rap^^iliignirbut no . seripus damage is rtptn^dV A A lk_ nearly ''lost bis life in trying' "to drive a cart througb tbe-TMk'iiav'rij*'et/-wbile coming lint»1 int». )0 tQwns J; *^en n he. reached: the, centre plJbeiford'. the borsearfd; cais' ( ,w,ere : i washed, /down the river*, and^iiej G we|r(t,abo^|l^Pjyards v jThe, horse was drowned,, and the lad was Bayed, \ritby,/iipculty. u £ yy >-; i v;» .< j_r J. J. Atkinspn.-who. .has just resigned hVi^ B??s°£i} n * he T ailway Department;,/ l p^pOses taking a tour of l i^%!6\im.f, lecturing on tbe New'^-Jealaiid^riitways and tbeir management^