ENGLISH LAW ENFORCED.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 18, 31 October 1861, Page 6 (Supplement)

ENGLISH LAW ENFORCED.

On one occasion, in ISSI, the determination of the the G-overnor to carry out English law nearly broke the pence of the colony. A native was taken into custody in the streets of Auckland for theft ,- a seufile ensued, and an innocent chief was knocked down by a native policeman and lodged in jail, but liberated in an hour. The insulted warrior Hew to his tribe, and whirling his musket In the air, related in fiery words how 'he had been struck by a slave and unjustly imprisoned. Three hundred armed natives landed at Auckland, and demanded that the offending native policeman should be delivered into their hands. The troops were turned out, the Fenci'oles marched in from Onehunga, the guns of her. Majesty's ship Fly and those of Fort L'ritomart were brought to bear on the mob, and the police magistrate told the insurgents they must leave the town in two hours. With shame and much sweating the warriors dragged their heavy war canoes over the soft sand to the low tide, and before an hour had elapsed the inhabitants of Auckland crowded to the heights to contemplate thirty-five canoes full of armed men sailing on the Wail cmafa. Two days afterwards, several chiefs from the insurgents laid at Governor Grey's feet meris and spears, emblems of submission ; the native policeman was not punished, and the New Zealanders were told that if they have a grievance they must present themselves to get redress in an altitude of peace, and not as an armed mob.— Thompson s Story of Kew Zealand.