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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 14, 3 October 1861, Page 3

To the Editor of the Hawke's Bay Times. Sir, —There is an amusing little bit in your last week's paper about the Ilangitikei Maories—the law of Moses—the shooting of a cow belonging to a settler, and though last, not least, the neglect of the magistrate to issue a summons against the delinquents, as the assessors assured him the Natives would tear up the summons and treat it with contempt ; (he cream of the joke is, this same ilangitikei is the veritable Fox's iiolk. Don’t you think, Mr. Editor, that he has in Ids own neighborhood some first-rate specimens of men of like passions and fcelbup; as ourselves,” who “ come so near to the Anglo-Saxon in temperament, mental capacity, and habit of t hought” ? Isn’t it rather progressing backwards to go to the law of Moses now-a-days ? Besides, it seems these Scripture-loving hypocrites go beyond their text, for it does not seem that the woman was killed , or died in consequence of the cows attack, but only that blood was spilt. Wouldn't the proper way have been to have ELt'.D the cow a little as uiu for the woman's blood—she might have drank it, and made all kapai. It doesn’t seem the Maories are to be dealt with quite so easily as Mr. Fox would have us believe. Lo 1 this is all from me, From your friend, Philo-Maori.