[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

A large meeting assembled at Parihaka yesterday to welcome the released prisoners, and Te Whiti kept them on the meeting place during the whole day, and addressed them at intervals. He was the only speaker, and blamed the Government for their arrest, and said that no one else was to blame should any further trouble ensue. They had been sent to gaol to avoid war, and no war should arise in future. The land between White Cliffs and Wanganui was given up as a place of unarmed strife between Tohu and the Government. The authority should be returned to the native Israelites through the exertions of the prisoners. The Euro pean yoke shoald be thrown oft^ but all shall be done by peaceable means. The prisoners wore decorations on their heads as a sign of their chieftainship, which should increase, and not diminish.
SORENSEN REFUSED A HEARING,

Mr Sorcnson, the Mormon Elder, dis tributed tracts, some of which were read aud others destroyed, and he was refused a hearing. He then prophesied the fall of Te Whiti's influence, and the dispersion of his followers.
A SCRIMMAGE.
Yesterday a slight|struggle took place at a new gravel pit which has been opened by the contractor for metalling the road at the Parapara. The pit was opened on a small hill in the wheat field, which was the scene of the arrests for fencing. The natives resisted the excavation, and got into the pit which they completely filled, making work impossible.
There was no speechmaking to-day on account of the rain, but the natives have not dispersed, and the released prisoners are still confined to the meeting house.
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