THE NATIVE MINISTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 82, 5 March 1884, Page 2

THE NATIVE MINISTER.

I . » I [Waikato Times.] I It is, perhaps, not to be womlered at, L that among all the friends and foes of I Mr John Bryce, there is not to be I found one ready to excuse him for cutI" tinp* off the pension of the old chief I Rewi. From one end of the colony to I the olhcr public opinion, as reflected m I the PreßS, condemns the Act of the I Native Minister as not only spiteful, but 1 positively— naischievou* -in .^ita^eflect, {inasmuch as it will tend,;to rob the (Jb'vernhie'nt of- fcoWw Wat prestige, twhn^-iAimfcßtiEa^peHoj&^J^Bryce himself, they have acquired m the estimation of the Maoris. We are firm believers m the wisdom of the I general policy, aplonted by the present I Minister for Na4iVe Affairs, and we I have -levajly 7 guppprted. him ; b.ut^ for thi^ujiii^sstofi Jowifs ;w C^confcß3 we I can find no palliation. When Mr I BTryceJOfiie^ to consider the matter I calmly and dispassionately, we believe I he will be sorry for what: he has done, I though it. ia not at all probable that he F wiJl acknowledge : hid i Wror ; he has no r weakness of that sort. On the other I hand, it is iJ tfo^liKely that Rewi, though Ihe were as poor- -as a church mouse, I would xjOneenf t<y! take [tho annuity raga'inJ^ I1 ''' '■'• ■•-""• :■■ >■■;■■■■■... u\ „-,••;3 "