Correspondence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 386, 18 June 1866, Page 4

Correspondence.

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[To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay Timcs.J

Sir, —I would like to know through the medium of your valuable paper, if Kopu pud his followers are privileged men. ami ran do as they -please, however outrageous their actions may be against the person or his property, whom they consider an enemy or Hau-hau ? Is it true that on Saturday last that Pitiera Kopu, on his return to the Wairoa, on arriving at Arapawanui, ordered all the horses to be got in, and took possession of the same, both European and native ? Is it true that one European took two horses from the mob, which they had quietly mounted, and were on the road for Wairoa? If they did, are they not amenable to the law ? If friendly natives, are they not considered in every sense of the word British subjects, and subject to all pains and penalties of British law ? if the natives are allowed to do these things, there will be no protection for property. Many other things that I know those Government natives have done that no Hau-hau would ever think of doing. lam very much afraid tire cure is worse Ilian the disease.

Hoping that there may be some good excuse for these wrongdoings, which I very much doubt, —I am, Sir, A Lover of Justice to All. Arapawanui, Saturday, 16th Jane.