Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus in jurare verba magistri. MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1870.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 769, 14 March 1870, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus in jurare verba magistri. MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1870.

The news from the front continues to be of the most meagie and unsatis factory character. The rumor of a skirmish in the Wairoa district, as reported in our last issue, proves to have been correct, and the casualties were as reported, one on each side. From all that we can learn, it seems that Te Koofci's gang are in possession of the shores and country round Lake Waikari, and the "friendly" natives are not very willing to try their strength against them. All the efforts made by the authorities to this end seem to have failed, and even those of the Wairoa natives who had engaged to take the field have since seen -visions and dreamed dreams which their fears interpret in an unfavorable sense as indicating disastrous results to them, and we understand that they have since broken up. Possibly the cessation of the daily four shillings per head may have something to do with this, and they, may be desirous of a return to the old system. A southern contemporary remarks in reference

to this last development of the " native allies" scheme that "it is the greatest of all the blunders committed by the Government," and though we may not endorse the sentiment, we may once more express our conviction that the rebellion will never be quelled by such means. The only hope of the Colony lies in the adoption of an entire change of policy, from which the friendly native element is expunged, and the sooner the Government, understand this and act upon it the better.