THE RELEASE or TE HURA and PARTY.
(Evening Post.) Gxr& contemporary [the Independent] this morning made out an extremely good case in justification of the policy of the Government in pardoning the murderers of Mr Fulloon. Of course a good deal of it is " special pleading," and the extenuating circumstances urged on behalf of Te Hura are in reality the reverse of a vindication. We are told that Eewi is to vouch for him in future, but one might not unnaturally ask who is to vouch for Rewi? It is better to err on the side of mercy than jto run into the other extreme, and perhaps in tho action now taken by the Govern • ment, people might see more than a mere question of political expediency, in which consideration for justice is set aside, were the Government more consistent; but when that Government is deaf to the call pf mercy on behalf of one of our own race, and the parties now busy concocting pleas to justify Te Hura's pardon were equally busy not so long ago in hunting up reasons why Tricker should be hanged, the Colony sees at once that the pretended "justice pxpatiated on is merely " bunkum."
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 745, 20 December 1869, Page 4
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201THE RELEASE or TE HURA and PARTY. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 745, 20 December 1869, Page 4
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