Notes and Comments.

Manawatu Herald, 23 July 1895, Page 3

Notes and Comments.

%9»t! 3 V.l. ■». V — ' ■ '■ * The Preixji&vit is admitted, is a gentleman possessd of shrewd observation" and some of his remarks to the Natives aredireot to the point. He believes in taking the Land Courts to the doors of the Maoris as " his heart has bled when seeing Natives dragged into the towns to reheaV complaints. They have been there week after week and month after moiith, while all their substance has breen vanishing. I have known theinin the Courts kissing that good book .tlie, Bible, and at the same time J«ff\fe kissing with their lips they told lies and perjured themselves." ' This i 8 only the truth but it is only part of the truth for the Maoris are no worse in this than the Pa'teha. Instances must be known to all where men to save themselves have 'deliberately sworn to fearful falsehood. ; u l<r is quite right to 6b* | ject to the Maoris doing so but it ik ! not fair' \o they are the only ones to blame* , M&ofis say many cutting .things in a^elatieii&aDjly'.way. Goodness only knows i^jTuiha- meant it just this way but it sounds rather so so. Mr Carroll had fihished rather a lon

talk at one of the, meetings held daring the Premier's travels ailiptigst the Natives, and beittg a mehibef of the Liberal Ministry used language common to the Party, and when he had closed Numa said — " I think it would be desirable that we should adjourti to a house, as the wind is rather iiignV*. To much " blow "in fact for Mr Numa. The height of laziness is illustrated by Kewi who wanted some land at Qhinemutu, but wanted it opposite the f boitjrig spriftgs* bo as to obviate the tiiiesflty of a/ fire to eerok liis foc|p ELf watitra location where hotfsgsssold water is properly laid" on. ••■-:.-■■:/ "'■'... ; Mr Be^Aofi told the Natives that he was the* first ft-iota Minister who ever, visited them, and from* his experience*^ gravelling over them, if ther^e were ;not .'better roads, he WoMd.probably tie the last. There is a gpod deal ia this aa the Premier aha pkirty had to walk 24' nliles from Rnatahu'tia. '' Tllis wSs a most [trying journey," say 3 the report, 'Mi being over the roughest part of the country they had travelled, the party had literally to crawl over masses of slippery clay and rocks, besides ford- ... At : one. ..time, they foUl* h^ve^td' ascend to' a: height 6(M6 leet ttfid at another;.; descend to the same dept^.- ... .i Suddenly, the Itrack if track it coold be calted^turned sharp off to the left} aqd a large sandstone bank, some 800 feet high, met the gaze, and the party descended-floundering, slipping, and rolling to the bottom. Then commenced an especially diffi cult jaunt through a sandstone creek bed. The Premier led the way. The whole paisy commenced to climb over huge stones for some hundreds. t>f yards; and would then drop 12 feet over a terrace j travel another hundred or so, then drop again, and so on for about seven miles. _______