THE FEILDING CHRONICLE AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1879. A SUBJECT FOR THE "CAT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 46, 4 June 1879, Page 2

THE FEILDING CHRONICLE AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1879. A SUBJECT FOR THE "CAT.

somb very deep-tWhking pbildioplier has uttered the truism;" there's a great deal of nature." True as no doubt the assertion is as "» j?ftle, there are «yet exception^ to it; for unfortunately there are some kinds of men whose natures are more akin to the brutish or demoniacal than the human,, Men who take a fiendish delight m lacerating the feelings of th«ir fellows, and who gloat upon the misery which* they pour with glee; into the hearts of others. So long as they are safe from the effects of their heartless, conduct, they care not who may be their -victims, how deep the desolation of which they '. are pc pau.se, or how widespread the misery of which they are the agents. Secure m the 'contemptible consolation * that their miserable carcasses are free from the punishment they deserve, their delight is increased m proportion to the" a^ony they create. . These are < tfKe sneaks who cowardly and covertly faY bficate reports of disastrous shipwrecks and appalling catastrophes towring^the hearts'of the unhappy yictims of th^ deception,. Our readers are well aware of the extemely precarious position of Native matters, atthe" Worth! end ;bf this. Coast; that it requires but a spark toi fire the train which would be- but k prelude to a. w»,r of devast: $ m to the Pat keha, and of destruction and" annihilation tq^he Maori ; tl^at to such an extremity of impudence and presumption, ha^ tfte fanaticism, of that 7 wily ar_p!i>-, conspirator, Tb- Wknrc^ibeguUedJftn^. goaded his. infatuated Ibtjtowersi that they are now ripe for aay ou.tra.go, and one day knows no.t Trhat the next will, bring forth. Taking Advantage, then, of the present excited state of feeling, some pitiful paltry scoundrel concocted the story that the. Natives of Tarariaki, had risen m revolt', and, cruelly mat. sacred a. settler and his faintly at Stony River, have been expected, •. the v news, which spread like, wild-fire^ caused the wildest excitement throughout the county, arid from Halcomb^in which town the report originated---, to Foxtonnothiog was talked of the probable truth . of the rumou,*. JkVhat gave a color of truth to the story was the, fact that, the supposed murdered man was said to *be a settle*, named Bayley, who had been driven, off his land, and threatened with yen« geance, by the -Maoris, and it was imagined that it might have been m striving to recover possession tha.fch.e ba.dfa.U9jn a victim to the violence of the savage.** . In order, therefore, to allay the excitement, and be able to confirm or contra" diet the statement, ,we, at an early hour on^Monday, telegraphed to Mr. S«r,r|»ay, a well-known Pressman at $$tnr asking him to wire full particulars.and a little before six o'clock received the following message kindly forwarded by that gentleman :^— *' i N,nw PxTHotTTH, Monday, 445 p.m. [ Up to the present time .not ;• shot hw been fired by either the Natives or Europeans. „.'-.-, ' ;--t,,'.:' : -v % ; ?settief» #$;&& |Mw¥fi jm ■•^o% ': their land. •'■■'■-, ..,„:.' f. " 'c \; Mr. William B.ayley and, b.js family w* •till at Stohey River, and there is ho truth m the report as to flieij being murdered. The , Governor, . Sir George Grey, and Colonel Whitmore are here, and are inveitigating everything connected with this aggrM* •ire action op the p»r% of, $e'N«tiyes. . >• A very largely attended public meeting was held this morning, when resolutions were paused asking jfhe Government to tkk» no steps to wpress. a©y further agj^resiion of the -Natives .without first ptroviding for tb% protection, -of: tha district, . and then those present enrolled 'iKemselr.ffr aal Volub;teei«;';;-,,:''.- !"'•*' v- ;--ov ?} y-.M v- ; . ■' ' •; . . The Natives commenced agnin tbii moming to plough up'Gourtney'a. land',^and- titim* Governor--^ »ho went out'in ihat ( flnfecfcioo^ this morning — witnessed iow the NativM can defy theTlaw, by ploughing up settler*' grass paddoel(9 iritbout being molested,. - From the foreetoing^ then, it will b« seen that there is not a particle of^r^ath. m the, story, which has been frbmb^*ginning to end a pure, wilful, an,dmalicioua fabriciaition. - 'Of douVse we are. heartily rejoiced that the affair after all should prove a hoax, rather than' that, the ghastly hopripr should have bees, true ; bu,t our pleasure is considerably damped by the . thought that its. author has escaped the fiogging he sp.richlydeserved. A few lashes with the "cat would prove, a salutary, and eflioaciou*.; Qurb>cnasq upon the exuberant vivacity of such, heartless scoundrels, who will have their pleasure at thp cost : 6fr others. Although, reported massaore has turned out to be a canard, stii)\ it must b» confessed the state, of affairs, is something more than critical/ and it is well that. that sceptical old j)arty,tSir> (3-eobgb Gbbt, ii on the spot to realise,, if i he will or can, the gravity.o£ the ai* tuation. - f^ :- -v: