LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 421, 30 April 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(Per Preys Agency.,) WELLINGTON. April 2D. Mr Gillon, Manager of the Press Association, will sue the late proprietors of the New Zealander in the District Court, for 179, for telegrams supplied. The case comes off next Friday. Several letters having appeared in the local papers complaining - of the pressure of the hanks, a correspondent in this morning’s Times points out that in reality it is the banks who are pressed by the public. It argues that the banks have invested too much capital in the colony, and that as the public have made too free with banking capital for trade purposes, hence the pressure, not on the public, but on the banks by the public. It is said that the shares in the Foxton and Sandon Railway arc not going off well, but the residents in the district will take up all the unallotted shares. Miier’s Tenui Hotel, near Masterton, was burnt down this morning. The probable loss is about £1,500. At conclusion of southern trip, the Governor proceeds to Auckland, where he will remain a month. Natives of Horowhenua Block have stopped work at the back of the Lake on Otaki Road, pending instructions from Major Kemp. Governor Hunia is reported to be the leading spirit in the movement. It is not intended to commence the collection of the land tax during the present financial year. The Ist of July will probably be fixed upon as the date for paying the first instalment. The Post to-night advocates a re-distri-bution of seats. With regard to native meeting at Te Kopua, the Post says the scheme is as desperate as it is impolitic. It is at a loss tojsee why the Ngapuhis should send representatives at all to the meeting, unless as intercessors for the Premier. ; AUCKLAND. April 29. News per City of New York. The Cormorant has shelled the native village of Brooker Island, as punishment for murdering Ingham. It is said that traders have sold dynamite to natives of the Island. Great sickness prevails among Chinese .residents in nothern territory 1 ;- .

JUDGE THOMAS AND RYOTWARRY. The following letter appeared in the New Zealander of the 22nd April : Sir, —In common with myself, thousands of people in New Zealand thought that Mr E. C. G. Thomas had received his conge long since. I had hoped that the public had heard the last of this pseudo philanthropist for ever, and that he had departed on his Ryot apostolic mission to the South Sea Islands, or to Zulnland, as I advised him to do in your columns long since. But, as Te Wlii'ti told his hearers at the last March meeting, that a dog likes to return to its vomit, so this pseudo Indian philan-. thropist comes here again at a troublous time, a stirrer up of strife.

What is this Mr Thomas who comes here in sheep’s clothing, with the hope of obtaining a thousand a year and his travelling expenses from the Poto people to teach them the principles of Ryotvvarry ? Hear his desciiption of himself “I am an Englishman, born in India—an Indian public officer, and now with a pension of £I,OOO a year. lam neither a colonist, a servant of the New Zealand Government, a missionary, nor a land speculator. 1 want no land either for myself or friends. I have heard and read enough of the Maoris to wish them well.” It will scarcely trench on my subject to remark that the same cant had been heard in the Bay of Islands by the missionaries—of all sects save one—more than forty years since. This Englishman born in India has an eye to the main chance, when lie only wants £I,OOO a year and travelling expenses from Rewi to make his bread certain and his water sure. It would be easy to import many people endowed with similar proclivities, at a far more moderate estimate of their own value than this servant of the Crown holds himself. What would be impertinence in an ordinary citizen, becomes treason in an officer of the Crown. I know not with whom the responsibiiit}' rests, but of one thing I feel thoroughly convinced, that the utterances of such senility as comes from the pen of this pensioned servant of the Crown, should be prevented being published. Has it over occurred to Judge Thomas that in promulgating his peculiar views, he has attempted to overturn all our land purchasing system, in order that he may succeed in establishing another of his own ? And for what? Tne sake of obtaining a £I,OOO a year, and his travelling expenses, or for purely patriotic .motives ? He has had his pamphieton Byatwarry published in Maori, and, if an imcontradict< d statement In print is correct, then refused to pay the translator I'm Oie translation, for the reason iliat no person could understand the translation. How could they ? No one in New Zealand could as yet understand Kyotwarry, according to Judge Thomas, save tliat it meant £I,OOO a-year and travelling expenses to this Indian philanthropist. A". 1 how could poor Du Thierry, the IransUlor, put this into plain Maori. In his letter to the Neto Zealand, Times he says " But we have now reached a critical position in native affairs, in which I venture once more to ask that my proposition may at least be given consderation.” If we have u reached a critical position in native affairs." I would ask your readers, sir, if Judge Thomas, by introducing strange doctrines and tncorics amongst the Maoris, is, as n loyal servant, doing his dutv ?— 1 am. fee., Noatiawa. Wellington, April 21, 1870.