la a recent letter to the Post, its New Plymouth correspondent says :— The power Te Whiti has over the natives is very great. One of them, the other day said that he would not only plough and make havoc with the settler's property, according to Te Whiti's orders, but if Te Whiti gave the orders to kill the settlers the natives must obey. The native added that he would be Borry to kill anyone, but he must do it if Te [ Wbiti commanded. They were just like soldiers. They had to do whatever Te Whiti told them. If therefore Te Whiti is not dealt with, and the power he possesses taken from him, the safety of the district will never be secure. This only shows the necessity there exists for the Government keeping the natives sent away from returning to this district again, at least for several yearß to come. A Dunedin telegram of Wednesday says : — Charles Maddray, who came out bv the Otago three week9 ago, committed suicide, by taking laudanum, yesterday. He had been a member of a firm of jewellers who had been ruined by the Glasgow Bank failure by which they lost £68,000. ' The European Mail makes mention that the New Zealand Government have empowered Sir Julius Vogel, Dr Abbott (Head Master of the City of London School), and Mr Walter Kennaway (Secretary to the department of the Agent-General), to select a teacher able to undertake the education and training of deaf mutes. The salary proposed to be given is £600 per annum, besides an allowance of £150 for rent, until an official residence is provided ; and the cost of the passage out of the person selected will be defrayed by the colony. Here is a fact of which English and Colonial Law Reformers ought to take note. The new Constitution of California provides that no judge can draw his monthly salary before he has taken oath that no cause remains in his court undecided which has been submitted for decision during a period of ninety days. They are not likely to have a block in the Californian Law Courts.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 166, 14 July 1879, Page 2
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