HOW THEY MANAGE THINGS IN NEW ZEALAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 237, 10 March 1865, Page 3

HOW THEY MANAGE THINGS IN NEW ZEALAND.

Tlie Governor put salt on the captive bird’s tail, and upon the flight made the apt reflection’ ‘ Who’d have thought it ?” We especially admire the visit to the stable when the steed was stolen and even then the not shutting the door to prevent the escape of the last two. And all the arrangement had consistency of its kind. The place of custody being an island, boats were provided for the prisoners, and the only precaution against their going off with them was the removal of the oars at night. For it never occurred to the sage authorities that spades would serve as sufficiently handy paddles to savages accustomed to canoes. What a contempt these savages must have for people who have so little understanding of ways and means. Then comes the dignified attempt to bribe the fugitives with a domain of 4000, and their contemptuous rejection of such terms, as they were very comfortably squatted on settlers’ land and feeding on their cattle, living in clover as it were. We should like to know what it cost to make these 200 savages prisoners, who were not kept prisoners ; what was the cost of time, what the cost of blood, what the cost of money ? And now that they have been allowed to escape

if tlio word can be given to wbat was more like a departure, or removal—what will be the cost in blood and treasure of recapturing them ? How clever they are in securing themselves in earthworks we we!! know, and we also now know how clever the Governor is in holding them when once caught. There*was no need of a ropetrick, aa d nothing to do but—in American lingo—to skedaddle. .And an army will now be required to repair tlm mischief which a guard of a handful of men might have prevented. The only reparation the Governor can make is to be off" to.—Examiner (London).