THE BOY CHARLES JAMES.
(To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross.) Sir,—l have taken the liberty of writing'a few lines to have inserted in your valuable paper. I was horrified to hear the news from Poverty Bay—the number of iives sacrificed by ; the Maoris. Now, Mr Editor, I want to bring your particular attention to the boy that left Mr Biggs* housed and warned the settlers of the outrages committed by the Haufiaus. 1 consider the lad . acted in. a. daring and most noble manner—ah act that the Government and settlers onght hbt:to forgot. He ought to be rewarded, if alive, *. by a pension bestowed on. him from Government, for life, and a handsome present given to him by the settlers at Poverty Bay.—l am, &c.,; • • ; " A ft, T,t?riTrtr - ■ Parnen, Nov. .16,; 1868. V,\Q ■:
; [As we Btated in - Saturday’a impresthat most of the settlers who escaped from jMatawhero are indebted to. the couragebus conduct ;of this- truly noble little fellow;^ 'veiyfiglhd tb'receive subieriptibhy;An conduct - worthy of' recognition.—Ed.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 November 1868, Page 282
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168THE BOY CHARLES JAMES. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 November 1868, Page 282
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