Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1868. RETROSPECTIVE.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, 31 December 1868, Page 317 (Supplement)

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1868. RETROSPECTIVE.

GN tLis, tlie fin4il ‘(iay of tiie clepaHing year, 1 order to* past a retrospectiye glanbe 1 brer a few: of the’ niost Simporta^' events fought ■ particularly/sticli; of them as. have <with j important - con-, sequences to .tiie settlers of the golony, TV -c At its led 'to atake a r sahgiime vie^of-its' prp>p##iye?;in<licatioru3, We^.oitebi7^'^^a#weK^iiiSliien P^SlMgSgatle: sufiiciem^eMoniw^opel*feh^t b itHe

flictaorLlof new longj ehbhgbrto .things: iofi ppixrseV- .~J>ut not i^’ithotit that a t uspf;isE3£etlimg]'^tj^e!'l^C*|>4^' then, ended had heehSone of progress, and we saw: gopdv groiinds for hoping that: the eomingy ear would be the same.; ; . ..But,^ we fear tfiat we cannot say our sanguine prospective speculations have been realised. We are fain to confess that the trials, and" depressions of the past: year have been greater than those oiT'its pFedecessors. Na-

tive matters,- which at that time seemed in a hopeful state, have since been growing worse and worse. The meeting of the Assembly, to which we looked with hope for a reform in the whole system of" Colonial taxation and the equalization of its pressure on the several classes of the Colony, "proved a miserable and costly sham, — a session of most extraordinary length having been spent in party squabbling to the postponement of the true business of the Colony. And if to this we add the fact that the staple export of the - And of this Province in particular, has. suffered a depreciation in value to near fifty per cent., it will appear that the past year has been anything rather than one of progress.

Itisnotf our intention to give a history of the occurrences of the past year.' In any case the limits at our command would not admit of it, but especially in the present case, where the events have been of an extraordinary. kind, both in number and importance. , . We have ; seen the neighhonhg / almost revolutionised; by extensive discoveries; of gold in more than one district ; we have seen, a change of Governors • over the Colony; we have been visited by earthquakes, and have seen the great earthquake wave of the sea, the effect of a grand convulsion ’ of nature on the w;est coast ..of South America. But, what is of still; more,, consequence to ns, we have, seen the re-commencement of the Native rebellion-^-at first on the West Coast, accompanied, as usual with the foul murder of our fellow-settlers ; and afterwards on the East. Coast by the escaped Chatham Island exiles, whose atrocities are yet too fresh in the minds of all our‘readers. We have seen every

able-bodied man corn erted into a civdiaa soldier for the defence of ou r hearths and homes, the arduous duties of drill . and night patrol cheerfully undergone,, but the. rebels yet uimubdued--—nay rather, we may say, emboldened by a; temporary success to hold us at defiance. So much is this- the case, that many of us have become convinced that the task of effecting their subjugation is

too for us,; and- have been constrained to oTy ’ for help, to our kindred at horned of;this is gloomy enough, : and^^ ; OTunfprbroecfia s^ twtelveV^^ >,.‘s»£''-S ‘ '‘f' I’’" 1 ’’" • vtV- -- Yjf* * -V/Xv- - -1 -/, i>- ' t i,.. ga^9tumy^as noindication~of a change: i are,.? however,l able, to a see Vhat lies in the futnre- andit SSil

he presented :|he|ye^:h.dx§vne^Bvmay;heyo£-^deci : the end of this trouble. We are, /as eyeri inclined view affairs in th eir mpst cheerful aspect, and can but regard /present troubles as of a merelyVteraporary; which will pass. quickly, and: give place to the normal exercise of the indomitable energy and of tie Anglo-Saxon race. , Trusting that such may speedily be the case, we bid our readers “ GoD-speed,” and most heartily wish them - “A Happy New Tear.”