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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 143, 9 October 1863, Page 2

We have to contradict entirely the story about the advent of William Thompson, the notorious Maori chief, amongst the Petane natives, which has been authoritatively spread by the Herald, and which story was further enforced in that paper in a veryweak leading article. There is no founda. tion whatever for that rumour beyond the fa ct of a Native in the interests of the Waikatos having lately returned north to his tribe. It is rather too bad for the Herald to be continually giving currency to reports of a nature to alarm the people of these parts, and that, too, in the face of the re_ peated back-handed admonitions adminis. lered by that select and favored journal to us, upon the score of a too keen desire to sound the alarm upon occasion. We have very good reason for saying that the Natives in Hawke's Bay are by no manner of means inclined to fall out with us. The energetic steps taken by the Government have had the desired effect, and the lately bounceable and and captious lords of the manor are now “ singing rather small.” The report we refer to bears upon the face of it the stamp of an absurdity. It is not likely that William Thompson, with all the heavy responsibility and interest of his tribe centred in him would, at so critical a juncture as the present, leave the scene of an impending struggle to pay a visit to an in. significant section of a distant tribe. We

beg our readers to rest easy upon an assurance that, as matters stand at present, there is as much chance of our Maories taking part in the struggle now going on in the North as there is of our receiving a hostile visit from the Caffres.