The Hawke's Bay Times. NAPIER, WEDNESDAY, 26th APRIL., 1865.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 257, 26 April 1865, Page 2

The Hawke's Bay Times. NAPIER, WEDNESDAY, 26th APRIL., 1865.

From the New Zealand Herald of the 20th inst. we have extracted a portion of a leading article upon the state of this northern island of the colony in respect to the progress of the rebellion and the spread of the Pai Mariri fanaticism, 1 Like most of (we had almost said all) the articles now to be found in the Auckland papers, it is fall of the wailing after the lost Government, so that it is' a matter of difficulty to wade through it and select only that portion bearing on the question. These reiterated groans so continually occurring are. almost sufficient to make a reader out of Auckland • turn from what would, but for them, be good articles, with a feeling of disgust, and we do not hesitate to -say that the standard of the Auckland press is greatly depreciated in the minds of. all disinterested, from this cause. However; we have, extracted the wheat from the chaff, and give it as hearing out our previous convictions on the subject. In our Monday’s issue ws were able briefly, to report that the St. Hilda had returned from Poverty Bay and reported all quiet there, and the departure of the fanatics from-the district; as also a letter from our correspondent at the Wairoa with similar news ..from that place. It is somewhat reassuring to us to find that while at no-great distance the rebels are ; making progress in their evil work# nearer at hand they have received a check. This has also been the case at Kennedy’s Bay, and proves that by the exercise of energy and skill on the part of the Government, it is possible to do something nr the way ’ of averting the calamity that threatens us. At the same time too much confidence must not be placed

iu natives who, like those at Poverty Bay, act the weathercock* and turn with the wind that blows from time to time, showing that their inclination is with their own race, and that a small measure of success would he quite enough to turn them against us. Ihere is no Vlouht that the danger of the province is imminent, and the immediate adopticu of protective measures necessary for its preservation.

From the same "Auckland paper we give an article on the mission of Sergeant-Major Scully to that place for the purpose of raising a body of men for the defence force of Hawke’s Bay. The tone’of ridicule covering violent opposition it bears shows the prevalent feeling of bitterness entertained against the Government, and bids fair to annul any prospect of success there might have been attending the mission of the Government agent. We would he sorry to endorse to any extent the violent language used by'this portion of the press against the Weld Ministry, though the apparent inaction of the troops on the West Coast, and their slowness to adopt any measures for the staying of the hau-hau superstition, might seem to justify some of it, we are more inclined to place all the blame of this on the shoulders of the General, whom, it seems, at last is a Maori sympathiser, and the groat obstacle to a vigorous prosecution policy now regarded with favor both by his Excellency and his Ministers.