THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1873.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 102, 23 August 1873, Page 2

THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1873.

KISG JOHN, ACT IT.

As k Favo incurred. the morions displeasure oi Air C. O. Davis by a simple narration of weii-iiu t bent mated reports which appeared in our issue of Wednesday almost without comment ut our own, and that gentleman Pas telegraphed from Alaketu that he itolus us responsible for the paragraph. ; The telegram was unpaid, and in the same spirit that one tears up a letter and returns ; tbe fragments to the owner, so we declined i the hide document. AA'e trust Air C. O. ■ Davis thoroughly understavuls that the | spirit wo mean is one of utter contempt

lm- him and his threats! It naturdV becu-.ncs ivbo arc fastidiously aeon t their rf‘|mtations that thoy shouM be as immaculate as CWr’s wife nnr , is questionable if Mr Davis advantage. He i 3 kno>vn to tainij, as an excellent Maori lin-tnDt nrl also as one possessed of onnci-L 1 *r, literary ability of a private charaeto^W the rendering into verse of Maori Son S to which, by some special inspiration h succeeds occasionally in imparting ■. 9 tioaal tone. Wo leaio it than ourselves to say by what mysWi faculty of invention this is effected \v* fear the epic poetry of Maoridom'would sutler severely by the abstraction oA Davis from the Meld of letters, ancl'tW Ilaubauism and Kingship wou i d S| J' lat irreparable loss. Yet this brilliantly reputation hay on one occasion or I! 7 nearly brought Mr Davis into ’ grid. Many years have not pissed ZT* since the paternity of a Maori p oem a 7 embed as :i seditious,” was all but iJ 68, him. The word. « who were to be “ sent back to Hawaii’” m other words to a place of ,v arm D porature which it I 3 not allowable to name, w.I, bo m the remembrance of many readers. H.s acquittal, after legal tigation, of course, silences Wm' remarks. A few older colonists used to say something about the time when \hl natives first began to exclaim, “ N™ m 9 we will have a king to reign overus/’ and who taught them to say it ; and somethin, .dso about the bard who travelled from kamga to kamga chanting patriotic (?) songs of his own composition/whLh securea hun a rapturous welcome from natives m all directions. But comb.to very recent times, it has been reported tbat Mi Davis s conduct in regard to other notorious native matters was notali .hat is desirable. How, in the name of goodness, Mr Davis has become so thin skinned as to wince under our short and mo.mnsive paragraph is not very easy to oe understood. The fact is this: It is hlJh po . rt . ance to the country that b ocks ot land m the interior should be occupied by large capitalists, and anyone attempting to prevent such a result w deserving of being held up to public gaze, whetner he be a Government ao-ent or interpreter, or one known to vuDar nttve boys by an ignominious and very irreverent name.

Mr J^n de^l anLtlng .f XlSting the -Rev l ea , f v a aL<i ao Pf e 01 u;s congregation is nothing reaU- “/>. P i QW 1 C For obnoua s ’ ” y ' do comment whatever on the to laSUe " Nothing is more detrimental uah^nt rU d- l! l tere#tS u * the Church than S e df*n'nV P 1 1 ! v,i:,!ons - one more sincerely Sncere?r r e '-.° C ? Urr t nCe - thaQ ou «elTes, and we H - i j Ust tl } &t * llnit J. peace, and concord” P t d “ J and Permaneutlj be re-established aiuoogafc us.

A c°sses’> o > de> ;t writes to us from Rotorua comSS 81 ™ f forwarded by the coach, I I t® ° ld Postal service ml Maketu is still appeaTS t 0 us Ter J absurd, now that Km. C-obb runs regularly past Ohinsmutu twice *Wh mai ' S Bhould n °t be forwa.-ded ,k b 7 I and We wouid * on behalf of the settlers 11 dl *‘-nct urge upon ‘'the powers that be” U,e necessity of so doing without further delay.

Ar-iiwt r* ifc Dt " ®°berts to the Commissioner mdhtre C ? n f- abu f rj Foree re s ardi «g the civil and aiso P abli ® aod useful works perDWri? r J ne A -°- Force in the Tauranga faan "\n f ri h f, J6ar ending 3isfc May, 1873, is to u sbad receive early attention. We hare n>)Vit' < ’ eiT Captain Turner’s official report of PUDUC w°r f 3 executed in the district, and shall °PP or t“nifj of mere particularly refe.nog L o tee same.

a.t glad to find that answer will be received Wet>Ji - from Wellington re the Post Office c*oca, a petiiion for wbica was forwarded to the * °® tm ®* l -- e^^- eneral by Mr Edgcumbe some weeks * ‘ thinking ir time to jog the memorv of the authorities on the matter, “tele2:apued on Tuesday last to the Hon. Julius °”ff on received a reply that be woutd be communicated with forthwith.