Hawke's Bay Times.. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 19, 1869. THE PHILO-MAORI PARTY IN THE HOUSE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 701, 19 July 1869, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times.. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 19, 1869. THE PHILO-MAORI PARTY IN THE HOUSE.

Considerable indignation was justly excised recently throughout the Colony by the receipt from the Secretary of State for the Colonies of despatches reflecting on the line of conduct adopted by the Colonial Government towards the native race. It will be remembered that Earl Granville implied that the charges made against the colonists of unjustly treating the native race in the matter of their land, of originating and maintaining an unholy war for the purpose of obtaining land, and condemning the policy of confiscation, were, in his opinion, founded on fact. Still later, we have the representative of public feeling at home, the Times, re-echoing the charge, and asserting that the cry for British ai is only now raised in the Colony because the coloni"ts are too rich and too busy to do their own lighting, and prefer that it should be done for them at the expense ot the British tax-payer. Such things are most annoy ins: to those who are conscious of the injustice of the charges preferred, but it cannot be wondered at when we consider chat for ihe most part they have oiiginated in the Colony. Not only is a section of the press constantly accusing the Northern Island colonists of appropriating South Island means to the carrying on a war for the acquisition of land, and other things to the same effect, but a similar class of members are in the House, of which Mr Creighton, member for Newton, a North Island constituency, stands at the head. It is but lately that, in his place in the House, he took up the same topic as written ou by Earl Granville, and censured the Government for placing a price on the heads of the archrebels and murderers Titokowaru and Te Kooti, at the same time denying that he was "the apologist of any rebel, but, 1 " he said, "he could not foiget that we were civilized men and Christians, and tha*" at least we were not setting that example to the native race in this war that we ought to set them''—in substance confirming the charges made

by Earl Granville of a breach of tk lawsof ci viii zed warfare. Of course Mr Creighfcon was answered in tj, House as the Earl was in Mr St a f. ford's reply to bis despatch ; but it j, *ad to know tliat there exists a party amongst ourselves from whom tL enemies of the Colony derive their arguments, and to whom they can refer in justification.