PARLIAMENTARY

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 95, 26 October 1868, Page 258

PARLIAMENTARY

.gQtTBt; OF REPPSENTATIVES. !?S * sa T& &AY"ei'fc l C^TOSER^ISCS^Vn; ” v tV '. HA-IITKILTT.’SjG ASE.>j,. : -\-i asked, the; Hon;-; the 'Minister fhr Culoinall)efence,’\Yhether ; the u consideration-of ihe; v circiini'stah(jes i: iviider 'which; Hart ; nett,. joner-of; the -guard at- the Chatham , was : murdered by the Maori prisohersj. will take .means to pay to his legarrepresentatiye: the sum of-money •• (£lO2 10s) belonging to Hartnett which was at that time in the Government chest at Waitaugi and-which was : carried off “by the. escaped ptisoners ? A.iso, .whether comgensation ought to be .granted to the representatives of, the murdered man ? He was" not aware when- he gave notice that the Hon.. the' Defence Minister had left for /.Wanganui, but perhaps some : other member of the Ministry would be kind enough :to answer for him.- It -would be recollected that’ when the prisoners escaped , from' the Chatham. Islands I only one man stood to. .his duty,: and was in consequence tomahawked. , That man, Hartnett;, had at the time ! a sum of money in the Treasury chest '! at. Waitangi then belonging to him ; ' and the poor fellow ? s father, a pensioner resident at Onehungi, had been t in correspondence with the G >vernment ! on the subject, but' the Government [ had not yet recognised the claim. He , was aware there was a Committee sit--3 ting, but be thought there were special t circumstances connected with the case ‘which would render, it desirable to * settle it as speedily as possible, and,as t he - was returning home on Saturday, he would be glad'to be able to give some satisfactory information of this matter on arriving. .. He was aware [ that ...there . was no compensation [to the slain in battle, ah hough if - Hartnett had left a wflSow she would 1 have beeii. entitled to compensation; ' as Hartnett fell a victim to a strong „ devotion to his duty, he thought the s circumstances would warrant recoguit tion of that special devotion: 3 Mr Stafford replied that the Goi vermnent had not thought right to " take any special action until the re- . dort of the Committee on his case had

been brought Up; but he recognised • this as a. special case, it being the ' naan’s own money which was in the I custody of the Government, and not like an ordinary claim for compensa- ’ tion, to be looked upon as one of those 1 incidents all men were liable to in , rime of civil war or riot; at the same I ’ime lie should like to have more ? 'ime to. consider th ; e question, although - he was inclined to entertain the proposition favorably, .