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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 39, 27 March 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

To the Editor of the Hawke's Bat/ Times.

Sin, —The following extract from a letter received per last mail from a friend on the West Coast may be acceptable to you, and perhaps interest some of your readers : I am still undetermined as to remain in Wanganui;—the recent enactments as to volunteering and Maori tachsalogy not gliding easily into midriff. It would appear from the recent movements of our Government that duplicity has assumed the place of diplomacy. “ God prosper long our noble kingis the loquacious exclamation of the (ig)uohle Waikatos. Let us, therefore, also pay tribute to the anointed of "* Apart from joking, however, we are now in a pretty fix aS concerns our position towards the subjects of I’otatau 11. The leasing of native lands has called forth much odium and disgust, and the sneaking dignity (?) with which the Government has recognized the demands of the natives, has moved many a heart with pity for tU» “ decline and fall” of British authority. I shall he glad to learn as soon as possible, your notions of our future position as settlers in this island.

The Wanganui Chronicle being in the Fox interest, it is almost only by private letters like the above that the sentiments of the settlers there can be ascertained. I have good reason to believe that the views expressed in the above extract are held by the great majority of the Wanganui public.

Yours, &c.,