Mr Burden's History of New Zealand

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 129, 10 April 1886, Page 3

Mr Burden's History of New Zealand

The Asgus thus comments upon Mr Jtasden's history : — "Mr Eusden adopted with new points, which must be hu own* all the stories told by the 4 goody-goodies' of New Zealand, the ultra missionary or extreme Exeter Hall party there, to the detriment of the average settler and the ordinary British officer. It is a fixed idea with these creatures that the man of color can do no wrong, and that the Englishman in the colonies, civilian or soldier, it a monster. In days of peace the settler is supposed to be plundering and cheating the aborigine, and in time of war he is represented as taldng-naturally to the massacre of men, woineja^- and children. The wttat»oonwption"iß a monstrous libel upon edlonisjs, .who as a rule are as just, JMt liiiaane, and forbearing as tho««;Englishinen who do not emigrate, •nd it' ought above all to shock a .colonist. But G. W. Eusden, who is a very old colonist, threw himself into ihe anna of the detractors and, for the first time put their scandals into what purported to be a history. Pages that might with advantage have been given to a description of the Poverty Bay atrocities, to accounts of how the bodies of the slain whites were mutilated, how their heart's blood was 'sucked, and their heads trailed through Ifabnland on poles, and to arguing lo# » tight hand on the tribes was leoewary, were devoted to bottomless charges and unworthy insinuations igainst the white man who was fightng in self-defence.

y!ba monthly meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Bodied called for Thursday lapsed for want of ft quorum, the only members present being Messrs Macarthur, Beckett, 4?eai. As no business could be done the meeting ftwnds adjourned till the next t day. Mr Bamber, the aewdeplb'VMm attendance.