HOW GOVERNMENT MANAGES THE NATIVES.

Kumara Times, Issue 811, 7 May 1879, Page 4

HOW GOVERNMENT MANAGES THE NATIVES.

The Bay of Plenty Times tells the following story :—At Maketu and other places we could name the Natives ate practically masters of the situation. Tlie Jaw hardly touches them, and when it does they get off with tines—a large proportion of which are never paid. Not long ago a gentleman holding a good position at Makelu threw it up and left the neighborhood, apparency without reason. He called on us soon aher, and we asked hiin'Vh© why and the wherefore of his exit. “ Well,” said he, “if you must .know,: it was because I feared I should Iba killing la- Maori .some day. When the brutes.were .drunk I found myself in constant danger of be : »g' attacked—apd it- was int doss idle to get protec ; ion. Even when ad rink maddened Native came to my house, and t • rejlene U to brain me, no one would lock h m up, and wnh Enghsh’s exam pie before my face I dared not take the law into my own bands.'’ This case is by no means a rnugalar one.: Peop'e who are obliged 10. live at some of these seefemeo s edn te’ 1 ! stories of \he most es raon in a v desn,:Dtion. We rememb. r hearing of aNa ive Assessor* who comm> :ed an oolrave on a ceriiiin R.-M. Court by waving a bludgeon over the Magisira e’s IteaJ, and teMiog that wor by be didn’t care a either for him or the Government or the Queen. The aff.-.ir was, of course, reported ic Wellington, and in a day or two the aggressor was sent ,for by the Na ive Monster. He travelled down fiisl-ehis?, and eujoyed h’mself immense'y. On a* rival at ihe Empire -Cry the Native Minister ioiennewed him Uuis ; “ Well,” lie commenced, jocularly, “ I suppose you have-come to have your head broken.” Q he Na ive reflected for a minute or two, ihep, bending down his head, he said, “ Break away. Last lime I came yon said you’d break my head open, but af.erwards you raised my sa’ary LSO, Do it again io-day.”i The Minis ter laughed, but sure enopgh when the Maori left Wellington his salary, was raised another LSO per annum, and ic was also nof iced that he brought back enough ready cash to keep hia relations drunk for a week.;