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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 33, 13 February 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Deliberate Attempt at Murder.—lnformation reached town on Wednesday, that a Maori shot another Maori through love or jealously, that the ball had passed through one thigh into the fleshy part of the other, and that his life was dispaired of. Tt was at the some time intimated that it was probable the natives would not give up the culprit to justice. Inspector Atcheson, and Mr. Interpreter Baker, proceeded on Thursday to the scene of the occurrence, but Riwai the wounded man, refused to give any account of the matter, and so for the present this Maori would-be assassin is allowed to be at large. Prom what we can learn Hemi fired two shots at his elder brother Riwai, with whom he had had some altercation, but that the first shot did not effect. The second shot—which after passing through the thumb and one thigh, lodged in the other was extracted with a razor. —New Zealand Advertiser , Feb. 1. The great preacher, Mr. Spurgeon, seems fast to be losing his popularity. After referring in rather severe terras upo Mr. Spurgeon’s publication of a letter addressed to him by the Bishop of London, the Saturday Review thus concludes:— Not that it is ascertained that the Bishop’s letter was written since the infamous Gorilla and Shrew lectures. Most likely Mr. Spurgeon publishes it only to avert that waning popularity which the newspapers announce. The Tabernacle Lecturer now begins to lose his temper, and we have received a report of one of his late lectures—that delivered on Friday week—which seems to show that the bubble has completely burst, and that he now defies that storm of general ridicule and indignation which has succeeded to his popularity. The lecture was on Dogs ? and in the course of it, speaking of jackals, the reverend gentlemen remarked, calling the attention of the audience to two respectable reporters who were present —“ I dare say you often see one or two of these jackals —for jackals are not the lion’s providers, but live on the lion’s scraps—men evidently out for a day or two’s holiday, dressed in clothes just taken out of pawn, after emerging from a public-house with the proceeds of an abusive article written after one of my lectures—men you seldom see, and won’t see again till you see them following me. Well,” continued the lectui’er, “ I am content to bo the lion, and long may I provide for the gratification of these gentry of the press.” A man must be going to the dogs, in more senses than one who ventures upon this sort of language. Whether the jackals who write articles about this lion of the New Cut pawn their clothes and frequent publichouses, it is not for us to say; but, as regards reporters in general, whom Mr. Spurgeon thought it right to affront in this way, we may say that we have some experience of even penny-a-liners, and we know them to be generally speaking honest, hard-working, painstaking,'incorruptible men who though poor, have generally received the benefits both of education and of travel, and who alike in manners and feeling, are more than the equals of Spurgeon—except, perhaps in the circumstances Bishops do not correspond with them. He who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigour ; he who can produce more and better, has talents, he who can produce what none else can, has genius.