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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 320, 2 November 1865, Page 3

A letter from Waikari, received per last mail from Mr George Farrow, will be found in our correspondence columns, which we heartily commend to the serious consideration of all who are concerned. The case of Waata Kohj;kohi was about the most simple that could have possibly occurred to test the value of the new system of treating the rebellion— i.e., to let the rebels enjoy their own opinion ; so long as they are quiet, but to vindicate the law in case of any and every incident of its transgession. We have in this case a single rebel who, in open daylight, and in the presence of competent witnesses, commits a most barbarous outrage, with attempt (nearly successful) to murder two settlers, —whose conduct is actually disapproved of by .the other natives, —set at defiance the machinery employed by the authorities to take and bring him to justice. And if our civil power finds itself at fault in so simple a case, where would it be in case of greater complication—say, for instance,

a murder approved of by the rebels ? It seems to us evident that the new policy is simply to have a'new war with the rebels on .account of. every breach of the law they or anyof them may commit,—-in which the chances are that the criminal may escape—while it is all but certain that-we must constantly sacrifice the lives of our bravest men in the attempt to take them,—surely it would be “better to prolong the war with all its hor* rors” until the rebels are subdued, and the messengers of justice can fulfil their iduty in every part of the Colony.