NEW PLYMOUTH.
We regret to have received reports of the Mokau natives having behaved badly to the shipwrecked mariners of the Harry. They have hitherto had the character of being- hospitable to travellers, though light fingered. It;would be well for the aggrieved men to forward a written complaint to the Government at Auckland, who would at least administer a lecture to the natives on the universal custom of affording" aid and shelter to persons cast ashore ; and a copy might with advantage be forwarded to the resident missionary, whose influence and good services are always at command if needed.
It is not improbable that the recent sentence of two of the Mokau natives to six months imprisonment, with hard labor, may have influenced their treatment of the crew of the Harryy though it cannot justify it. We are aware that they considered the sentence disproportioned to the offence committed, but as it was concurred in by the. native assessor Poh^arama, in whose judgment and discretion full confidence may be placed, we assume it was well deserved; In any case it will be well the natives should be warned, if only as a precaution against possible mischance for the fixture. —ikranakiHerald, \
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 527, 21 November 1857, Page 3
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200NEW PLYMOUTH. Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 527, 21 November 1857, Page 3
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