ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN WITH IMPORTANT NEWS!

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 298, 17 August 1865, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN WITH IMPORTANT NEWS!

FIRE AT WELLINGTON. MURDER of LIEUT. WARING, 50m REGT., BY THE HAU-UAUS. LOSS OF THE S.S. ALEXANDRA. Wit. THOMPSON’S PETITION RECEIVED. MR J. E. FITZGERALD APPOINTED NATIVE MIN ISTERBt the arrival of the s.s. Queen, which vessel dropped anchor in the roadstead about 8 o’clock on Wednesday night, we have some rather important news, details of which we now proceed to lay before our readers:— ANOTHER. MURDER BY THE HAU HAUS. The news from Wanganui relative to the murder of Lieutenant Waring, of the 50th Regiment, is important. Our own correspondent, writing under date, August 10, says : Wanganui, August 10. 'The : Moa steamer arrived in the river last night, (bringing the melancholy intelligence that another officer's body has been carried off by the rebels ; that they have obtained possession of another head as a subject upon winch to practice their barbarities. Licutanant Waring, 50th Regiment, was stationed at Eakarami'i, the farthest outpost up the Patca. Jle had always shown himself a brave ■.young officer, and was in the habit of going out Shouting pigeons, fowling, &o. On Tuesday morning last, in company with four men of his regiment, he went up the Patea river in a boat for the purpose of fowling. They were just opposite a small; scrub when a volley was fired at them, and poor Waring fell, shot through the head. Another -volley fired at them wounded a man in the shoulder. The men seeing their officer dead, and knowing that if they stuck to,the boat, they might perhaps, all be shot, immediately jumped out of the boat and swam for it; so the boat containing the body fell into the hands of the bloodthirsty wretches. Such is the general outline of the case, as far as I have been informed, and such will happen repeatedly foi years until an example is made. It is false Christianity that has spared the lives of the many prisoners wo have taken. It is the canting hypocrisy of Exeter Hall' that spares them.the rod, in direct violation of the creed that it professess to practice. True Christianity would have hung them long ago, and in so doing would have put an end to the unhappy strife which is exterminating one of the finest races of savages upon the lace of the earth. Temporising mersa o ■ have brought about the present state of affairs. The very Bir George Grey, who at the present moment is in the ascendant, has much to' answer for. He held »he Fox Ministry in his trammels and the Weld Ministry cannot shake them oi£ I was-at Kakaramia when a certain regiment took; so prisoners but dead ones, and I think they were "

right, for can it be expected that men would keep alive those whom they knew a-paternal Government would feed, pet, and caress, and let them loose again in a better condition than ever, to murder and drink the blood of their victims. Not until Sir George is himself a victim to the Hauhaus will the least attempt be made to put them down.—lndependent, August 13.