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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 103, 21 December 1868, Page 305

The Fbiendly Natives.—The Wangahui- Evening Herald strongly condemns the employment of the Friendlies, and recommends their immediate disbandment. The l , journal' says :—The kupapas have

turned,'out a miserable failure, They will boast, 'and clamour,.and consume, but they will* not fight. They get 3s 6d a day and rations,'and aro worse than a flock of sheep in the.presence of the enemy. They cannot be. depended upon, and they embarrass the movements of the regular troops. ' Old men and boys have been assisting to swallow up the revenue, and they have given nothing in return but trouble and annoyance. jCheir behaviour at Moturoa, with the exception of Kemp and his seventy men, was disgraceful in thel-extreme,- and. contributed to defeat. Hunia and His men bolted.- . Out of 470 men and boys, 400 were rank cowards. We made a grand. mistake in employing them, and if we", allow them to retain their arms after they are dismissed, they will show themselves at once our masters. The British, prestige will have become a shadow if we are driven back by the Hauhaus, and dictated to by the friendlies. It is time that the Government looked in some other direction for the means of finishing the war, than in , that of the friendly Maoris. The great mistake all along has been to arm natives at all j but it is never too lata to mend, and after disarming the kupapas let them be sent to their respective villages. The Panama MailService.-—The New Zealand T)eoember, -says: —“lt would appear that the Panama mail service is at an end. No information or particulars are in the Sydney papers, but by advertisement it appears that the

Mataura is intended to leave Sydney for England, via Magellan and Bio Janerio on the 10th proximo.” The Evening Post, Bth Dec., has the following : •“We. learn with much.; regret th*at the P., ;N.Z.,& A.U.M. Co.’s>.s;llakaia, which leaves hereto day, is the . last of that noble line of steamers which will carry our English mau to Panama. Our regrets are shared by our neighbors in Australasia. The Sydney Morning Herald says;:—‘lt thAflnancial failure of the Panama line hadrb een in any respect due to bad ships, incompetent- commanders, stingy manage ment, or general unpunctuality, we should have had to say that the.failure was' deserved. But the very contrary has been the case, and this aggravates the hardship. No finer mail ships have ever entered our harbor, and they have performed the unprecedented feat of crossing the Pacific with speed and regularity.” Poor Crosbie Ward 1 had he been alive now the failure of hiß darling scheme would have broken his heart.” ' . ..

A. Sad Story.—The Warrnambool Examiner has the following,paragraph, written in a. humane spirit, andoarrying a suggestion which might be acted upon in the interests of charity:—The.only case at the police court during the past few days was a charge for being drunk and disorderly, brought against Henry Jerrold, compositor, aged 60,, brother of the late Mr Douglas Jerrold, the well-known author. The police magistrate and Mr Crammer were on the bench, and. the accused was discharged on condition that he. left the town. He had been incarcerated in the jail fromJSilnday and a few hours after he had been liberated was.seen at Allansford. He is likely to “ tramp it” to Melbourne, and if he should arrive there it would ;be a charity for the Benevolent Asylum Committee to give ■ him a home. From.'lß3B t0.,1852 he was a pest, to the newspaper offices .throughout England, and from the latterly ear up. to the, present time he has .. been , a .rambling n outcaßt, travelling from , Sputh Australia to Queensland, and. back again., He waß an,accomplished soholar at . collegebut hisunfortunate propensity for , alcohol has .for over thirty years, reduced , him to a common vagrant. . r , ,

• j Expensive Telegraphy.— The Wellington '.lndependent the following Ss> ; a species of mild insanity ”:—In the competition between-the Otago papers; the Times ‘and Sun, the Northern 1 war hews.haW been telegraphed- to both lately -at an enormous expense. ' We have reason to'know that a telegrams cost the h s Times'£7s', andthe Sun £56. *

'.-hr T - • 'x *’ *->v .Captain Stack, the recruiting officer i- ; sent;by.. our ..Government, has grrjyed .at