WEDNESDAY MORNING!!!

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 29, 22 February 1844, Page 2

WEDNESDAY MORNING!!!

Major Bunbury the Acting Governor, called the Executive Council together at k, to consult with them on the proper measun s to he adopted in the above unprecedented act of daring outrage. \\ < are giveu to understand that the Three Old Wo: ming the Executive Council, are averse to the adoption of any coercive means for the recovery of the Maori,Temania,and the prisoner Davis, who at the time of of his arrest was supposed to have assisted in the rescue, Mas also discharged, with the other Native who was preparing to fire at the soldiers ; the affair is to he orer 'till the return of Governor Fitzroy, and of course Mr. Clarke will in the mean time be dispatched to the Native settlement to te'l them that they are kai kino, and with the present of a few blanket some tobacco, the matter will end. We entirely acquit Major Bunhury of any participation in the fears that operated so powerfully on the Old Ladies. On the ary he evinced that energy and promptitude so characteristic of a British er, but of course whatever his own feelings or opinions may be, he cannot take the responsibility of acting contrary to the advice of the Executive Coun c i'. We give the above humiliating pictu'e of B Authority, aud refrain horn making a«y nig the public to form their own opinion of the affair. Surely the Lion should be erasedfrop the Queen's or he represented crouching under the blanket o<" th> . or j.