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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 121, 11 August 1853, Page 3

In a Journal, such as the Maori Messenger, especially designed to promote the best interests of the native race, it has ever been one of the most grateful duties of the editor to he enabled (o direct the prominent alienlion of his fellow colonists lo llie numerous

;unl praiseworthy examples of native philanthropy manifested in behalf <if .suffering liiiniiiiiily, and more particularly in casualties arising through the perils of llic sea. Williout multiplying instances, the. succour extended to Captain Clarke, of the Sisters—to tlx; shipwrecked mariners of the French Frigate AlrenietiP—nnd the almost unparalleled devotion of llie generous native, wlio strove so nobly to save the lite of Major Greenwood's servant from the water-; of the I Manukau—are sitfiieienl evidences how deeply the native mind is impressed with a high and holy sense of the social duties. Enicrlainingsuch a just and proud opinion 1 of native lienevolence, we cannot hut lie ' struck with shame and sorrow by perusal of! the sad narrative of native inhumanily just recorded in llie pages of an Auckland newspaper; and to which, upon inquiry into llie accuracy of the statements, we regret our inability lo give the slightest contradiction. As faithful chroniclers of deeds, of native integrity, we feel bound lo give currency to iliif unfortunate record of native inhumanity : not so lunch with llie view of holiling up the actors lo contempt, as IVo in a principle of justice to llie deserving. In Europe,' men who could act as these, have done would lie execrated on all hands; and from the numerous details of shipwrecks which have appeared in these pages, it will have been clear to our native readers, with what enthusiasm heroic, exertions, in preservation of llie shipwrecked mariner, have been hailed by the people of all countries. The Europeans, sealed in New Zealand, are feelingly alive lo llie interests of the tribes. They are delighted when an opportunity of advancing their honour and their prosperity occurs. Ilul whilst neither meed of praise nor measure of reward has been withheld in approving testimony of an active philanthropy; so will (here be no lack of indignation directed against such as at some inconvenience or risk lo themselves can pass on their own way, callously leaving their drowning fellow creatures to :» cruel and inevitable doom.