CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 252, 14 April 1865, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

—=—y- : ff’e.ishall always feel ; free discussion of all subjects affecting the'prosijertty ~»hd progress of the i)ni%cs#n<l co.toriv, : imt euaqrting • any opinions expressed in this portion oftour columns, and “iwuys j-eservln? to'ourselves the t« eur*"o expression wanting in courtesy on the part of the writer. as* AU communications must' be accompanied fiy the nameand'addresT'ortlle u'nEerin conS-leuce, and ii-i a gearautee'Of-gtnd faith™*”'"" “' ' ’ ••■*•- - ** ’ ; , Vl '.! (T *l' 'M. (he Jih’Xi foT 6f the ilctwlce s T>ey Times. Sih—'Hie' native question is looking a little better at present. A" small eiond is appearing in England ; it will grim- larger and then burst. The colonists of New Zealand will before long hare -justice done them; the day of missionary influence has gone bj; Exeter Hall cannot be brought to fight their battles any longer. The inrituationorrhe hau pai nvarire is the means' by which vre shall arrival the desired end in saving* flie j colony. How thankful the -tfulonfsts fhoald be that this new fanaticism has broken blit and spread towards the close of the governorship of our imbecile Goypmor, and not in the morning of hisrf.-im. What will the people of England think when they hear of the Governor being bearded i^his fewn house by a rebel and self .avowed imfr lerer ; still the murderer deserves the thanks of a'Tgood colonists for exposing and defying h’s imbecile friend. Was there ever a precedent in The history of any colony where the representative of Groat Britain was as openly insulted as Sir George Grey was by the Wanganui murderer Input. Su-h language’to any other Governor than our own would hive been' resented by ihs'aut ret rii.uHvc justice. Do we read of any of flic early Governors of the American colonies sitting so tamely by whih the murderer boasfs of his bloody deeds ? The writer has heard Cnurch missionaries and native magistrates, their sons, just ify the first murders of Taranaki. Something of the sort must bo the feeling of our Governor when he sits tamely by and is bullied by his fiend the Maori. Can we winder at the de&uit feelings of tho natives towards us ? Is it nny wonder that the .Maoris bol l us in sueh supreme'contempt as they do? Has then* ever been given them yet any such moral or physical force or example us wofild strike terror and respect in their degraded minds? It is not. to be expected that magistrates, the snni n f church missionaries, brought up in the sight and smell of a Maori pa, ean administer the laws of England with justice and in an unbiassed manner. The writer himself had on more than one occasion (o feel the power and prejudices of the Maori m-trl=. trates, and alstrsaw practical illustrations of their love towards their own countrymen. On one occasion tho'writer had Ids house broken open in broad day, within sight of a R M V bouse, and almost all his worldly goods carried o!T. under no P’ctence whatever but that of plunder, lie of course applied to the R.M. for justice, and after the lapse of about a month the R.M. called upon him ami told hmuhaiLbchai succeeded in obtain ing a restitution of his goods, but that he must !>ay the robbers four pounds. They were not. to bo punished for burglary, oh no ' and the settler who had been robber must nay for the great honor of being robbed by them. For said the R.M., “ the natives know no heMer and you must bo quirt over it. as the Governor has sent special instructions to avoid irritating the natives-by bringing them before R.M.’s” Rut he adhered to his resolution ot not (laying for the encouragement of crime, and consequently the R.M.. who has since been made Civil Commissioner, had to pay it out of his pocket, or .rather out of that of the colonists. r lhis is only one of the many instances of violence and robbery perpetrated tinder the noses of R.Ms. and Commissioners, who looted on askance, almost assisting and silently encouraging the criminals. Let ns hope that the time is drawing near when, if the Maoris are to live upon (he same island with ourselves, they will be compelled to submit to the just laws of our mother-country—laws not to be administered by the class that are at present in power, but by good and conscientious Englishmen. The management of the natives from the first has been anything but right both to them and us. Circumstances, and the influence of Hie Missionary party, have been too strong. Right has fallen to the ground. But at last too colonists’ complaint is being heard in England. People’s eyes will not be longer blinded by the hypocrisy and lies of the Church Missionaries when the fate of one of their oldest and best is known at home. People will ash, where is the fruit of the countless thousands spent in trying to christianise the Maoris P The rapid spread of the hau pai marire belief, engendered and fostered by the very men who have now to flee from their converted brethren, as they feelingly call the Maoris in their : ‘letters to the Home Society. Protestant Jesuits as they are, they are now reaping the fruit of their own sowing.

Even tit is province of Hawke’s Bay is not free from danger. The worship of the devil has commenced within a few miles of Napier, and still, although the authorities know the danger, nothing is being (lone. Poles and all their heathenish paraphernalia can be erected, and their cursed worship be carried bn under our very eyes, and nothing done to prevent it. While this is allowed and winked at, so long will the natives boast, and With reason too, that we are afraid of them.

The eourse is open at-oncc to put a stop in this province to the progress of this infernal superstition ; for all the Maoris in the province, without exception, are more or less in league, and.inelined to join , with the Pai Marires. Their nightly conversations among themselves prove it, no matter how much they protest the watrafy to the Government, All are imbued with the same hostile l feeling against Us, tthd are ■ not to bo trusted. There is but ode,course open to those in authority; to at once proceed by force of arms, and compel an abandonmutiof. their hellish worship. What •if.it cnds in ; bloodshed ? 'Sootier qr later it must come fb this) and, the 'sooner began the better. -.jLbt us have peace By idl-jncahs,!sf t ing oo o aure basis, which can ievbr B&jjftt«iDed

By the Jjpohsb vacillation that at present called government-; *'Let the colonist#at wet- fake such proceeding* as will procure the resignation or refillip o£«ar ; present imbecile Governor, and oh the I'olonisfw «%* should rest the responsibility of v (se.goyymißotir,or the natires. After nearly six Teai 5 8 of-.wnr, are'we now any nearer a’ peaceful ontftj£m«v>£ «Ua nolloo O _ * liicrv means has been tried m vain hut the true one of physical force. Instead of letting the representative of England-be bulheti.-nn:;- insulted-by rebels who mistaken humanity, Jet; thy : rebels be taken find J»wept off the fade of our injured country by‘discharges; of" grape an cT eanis ter, blhw HiemlronT iguns, and let theirmangled fragments be a sacrifice to tlieir owu infernal paganism: l Yours, &e., , . R. G.H. t