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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4796, 5 August 1876, Page 2

Mb, Rees last night indulged in the wildest, most heedless, and unfounded accusations against Sir Donald McLean’s conduct of the native affairs of New Zealand. He repeated all the old inventions concerning the meeting with Winiata, all the false statements as to the presence of murderers there known to Sir Donald. He heaped insult upon unfounded assertions, and actually “topped the infinite” of rudeness. Well, apractioal contradiction to all he said appears in our columns this morning. “ Our own Correspondent” at Tauranga telegraphs to us that a meeting, at which over 600 natives were present, resolved to throw open an important district for gold mining. Of these Maoris many have been not far back determined foes of the pakeha, but the wise and statesmanlike policy of Sir Donald McLean has turned them into friends, and gradually each portion of the country which the Maoris held in stolid isolation is being released from its enforced impenetrability, and is being opened up to the energy of the white man.