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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 260, 5 November 1870, Page 4

Making Terms with Titoko Waru. — We are afraid that the resolution respecting making terras of peace with Titoko Waru, which has been recently passed in the Provincial Council, is likely to cause a laugh at us in the other Province. We have been shown a private letter from Wellington to a gentleman in which the writer says : — " The Provincial Council of Taranaki are getting finely laughed at down here, and the papers are giving them fits ebout making terms with Titoko Waru." — Taranaki Herald. The Wanganui Chroi.icle says: — "We understand that Mr. Cooper, solicitor of this town, has communicated with his agents in England, relative to the claim of Mr. WilJiam Francis Drake, of Wanganui, to the Drake estates, at Nutwell Court, Devon ; Sir Thomas Traytou Fuller Elliott Drake, Bart., having died in the month of June last. The deceased Baronet was uncle to the present claimant, who until lately was a cabman at the Thames diggings." We have good authority for stating that the William Francis Drake above referred to left Picton for the Thames goldfields about two jears ago. He was for some years in the employ of Mr. T. Williams, brewer, of this town, and his family still reside here. We hope he will succeed in establishing his claim. — Press. Titoko Waru and the Taranaki Provincial Council. — The following rebuke has been administered to the abettors of cannibalism in the Provincial Council of Taranaki by the Wanganui Herald'. — The Taranaki Provincial Council, in discussing the question of peace with Titoko Waru, is exceeding its functions. The people of Tarauaki are naturally incensed at the base proposals that have been made. To offer terms to the cannibal who not two years ago was living on human flesh, would be sufficient to cover any Government with eternal infamy. We protest, and every man in the district protests, against any negociations with Titoko Waru. If it be necessary to chau^ethe present policy of letting him alone, let us concentrate the Armed Constabulary and hunt him down. He has eighty meu, he is not likely to be reinforced, and we should be able to crush him. But perhaps the best policy is to watch and wait. We warn the Government that if they admit this caunibal to terms, there will be an outburst of indignation which they will never be able to outlive. We believe there are men in the present Ministry who will reject the obsequious proposals of the Taranaki Provincial Council with contempt, and who are wise enough to foresee the ineviiable consequences of the recognition of the principal leader of a murderous and cannibal gang. The Greek Government tampered with brigands until Europe protested, and what is Greece thought of now ? When a Government departs from a high and honorable course, it has nothing left worthy of support.