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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 578, 15 February 1851, Page 3

Wk understand that the settlers at Wangaaui whose houses were destroyed by the iroops during the military operations in that iistrict in 1847, in order to prevent the occupation of them by the rebel natives, and kho were declared to be entitled to compensation by the Legislative Council of this province, will be paid the amount of their Respective claims by the Government. Of purse the Faction will discover this to be fery sordid ! Poor fellows ! they are ready Co lay hold of any pretext to raise a clamour igainst what they deem Government abuses, but if the Governor orders the inconvenience to be removed, if he directs a remedy to be applied, they immediately exclaim £ Where is the particular merit in doing it iow ? How sordid even to allude to its Being done I” Just as a philanthropist of ttieir stamp in former days exclaimed, “ Why ill this waste ? Why was not the money fiven to the poor ?” “ Not” we are told, I uiii /ie careu for the poor, but because he |as a thief and bare the bag.” So their is not that the claims on the Go|ernment should be discharged, that public ttnprovements should be made, but that |ley should clutch the purse strings and spcuuing of the money.