CORRIGENDA.

Auckland Star, Issue 1192, 18 November 1873, Page 2

CORRIGENDA.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —In carefully reading Dr Lang's lectare in the Weekly Herald of the 4th Octolier 1873, concerning missionary land purchases • also in the Herald of the 11th inst. there is a dispute between J.F.W.W. and H.I.XT on the matter stated by the doctor; and in the same Herald, page 19, I fijuTasfarasmy experience goes, there is a great Btir as well as ill-feeling among . the various missionaries (especially storm in a teapot) for the doctor exposing what they commonly called Xew Zealand land-shark system. Mr Editor, we could hardly know what Mr Hint meant by " Let sleeping dogs He;" hut at the same time we are taught there ia nothing hid _ which shall not reveal, neither was anything kept secret but it should come abroad. Then Prude thought it waß high time to persuade the Doctor on the first of the present month to let the "cat out of the bag," for the sake of both races suffer—especially the brown one —under this land shark system, although it benefits very little either of them at_ present And then comes a very small still voice of " Guilty conscience needs no accuser" on the above stated pa^e, viz.: Dr Lang v. Missionary Land Purchases. Ajid we, the aboriginies of New Zealand, in a great hope and -wishes for our future welfare earnestly beg that the mother country and her Government, as well as the Home Parliament, and the Aborigines Protection Society should observe diligently and constantly (for the Maoris' sake, especially those of Waikato) the real, actual fact of Dr Lang's lecture aforesaid on "Missionary Land Purchases and New Zealand Land Shark System" is the very root of all the present and former disturbance, hostile enmity, and wars between the Maoris and English, from 1845 to Waitara and Waikato war. "We Maoris venture to say that any pure conscience will not say that the missionary land purchases, and New Zealand land shark system, is not the cause of tho Maoris disturbances, hostile enmity, and wars to the English. We Maoris also venture to say that there are thousands of high learned men in the mother country as well as the home Parliamenteven her most Gracious Majesty tho Queen herself is ignorant of this missionary and New Zealand land shark system, and if they had known Her Majesty's faithful Maori subjects and dutiful servants would not be so badly abused and suffer so much from their fellow loyal English subjects in the past history of our joint occupation of the country.—l am, &c,

SifcifEY David Taiwhanga.