The Hawke's Bay Times. NAPIER, THURSDAY, 17TH AUGUST, 1865. THE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 298, 17 August 1865, Page 2

The Hawke's Bay Times. NAPIER, THURSDAY, 17TH AUGUST, 1865. THE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

By the arrival of the s.s. Queen last night, from Wellington, we are put in possession of some important news, which will be seen elsewhere. We regret that at this late hour we have not space at our disposal to give detailed particulars of the various items of intelligence. In our next issue, however, we will endeavor to give further extracts. On Friday afternoon, before the news of the murder on the East Coast of MrF.ullooa and fellows was known, the motion for the reception of W. Thompson’s petition (published in our last) was brought before the House, and was carried by 27 votes against 16. As a consequence of this, or perhaps more correctly a corollary, Sir Fitzgerald was appointed Native Minister, On tbe next day (Saturday) however, just after this appointment was made, the uewscame in from both East and West of the fresh atrocities committed by the Maoris. Of that on the East Coast we have already given, that on the West Coast we give in another place. The dissatisfaction plainly enough expressed by all but the ultra-southern party at the appointment of Mr Fitzgerald now became ten times louder than before, and it is to be expected that it has sealed the doom of the Weld Ministry, We confess that we are greatly surprised at the course pursued by .the Ministry, whom we have endeavored to .defend from what jwe have considered the unjust charges of .the

Auckland clique ; but we must confess that the reception of Thompson’s infamous petition,. and the appointment of the treasonable Fitzgerald to the office of Native Minister, is going beyond what their greatest enemies would have accused theta of. We can now see how the war is to be ended how the handful of colonial police is to prove sufficient to quell the disturbance in the colony. The whole policy of the Ministry now stands out in all its naked deformity, and is to be expressed in the simple words-— Unlimited Concession!