Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistrl. MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1869. THE ANTI-COLONIAL PARTY IN THE COLONY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 725, 11 October 1869, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistrl. MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1869. THE ANTI-COLONIAL PARTY IN THE COLONY.

Mr. C. O. Davis again appears in the columns of our contemporary the New Zealand Herald as the advocate of the rebels, the apologist of Earl Granville and the philo-Maori party, and the opponent of that, noble little band in England, who, headed by Sir George Grey, have stood in the breach to defend the maligned colo nists of New Zealand, He quotes largely from certain letters of one! iVlanuwhjri, a relation and adviser of to show that that party is, and has long been, ready and de sirpus tQ end the war, and that the

only obstacle to peace is the greed for land on the part of the Colonial Government. He speaks of tbe bloodstained Te Ko,oti. and Ijtis band of marauding assassins as a persecuted and much injured party, who num ber but 140 men, and who are driven by the Colonial forces from place to place, unable to find rest for the soles of their feet. Of course all this is prepared for the home market, where Mr Davis must appear as a saint of the firs': water; and it v ill, as it is intended it should, confirm the philo-Maori pany in their con\iction of the justice of the rebels cause, and the tyranny and oppression of the colonists. We have long ago shown that the slanders heaped j upon the colonists by a portion of the British public have invariably originated in tfie Colony from some such source as that at present noticed. We only wonder that any: respectable journal will lend itei columns to such gioss misrepresentations, which as far exceed the| bounds of fair discussion as anything! can do, and whose only effect is to inflict irreparable injury on the reputation of the Colony.