THE STANDARD. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1873.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 48, 30 April 1873, Page 2

THE STANDARD.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1873.

“We sliall sejl to no man justice or right: We shall deny to no man justice or rigfot: We skull defer to no man justice or right.

A press of late advertisements and other matter to hand by the mail leaves too little room at our disposal to dilate upon the many interesting topics found therein. Possibly that of most importance i» the reported murder of an European by a section of £he Waikato natives. This intelligence, flashed to the Pay of Plenty Tinies from A uckland, and brought on here by the Paterson, will be found among the telegrams; but we regret having, no particulars at hand by which we can account for the addition of one more murder to the already long list of unavenged crime. As with Todd so with Sullivan; and and this, too, while peace is being loudly proclaimed, and some of our neighbors are asking to be relieved of the incubus of militia duty, and to be allowed to lie down with the lamb !

Even at this distance of space and time there’s not a heart amongst us that will pot “ leap with a burning glow,” on knowing that judgment is likely to overtake the guilty captain of the steamer Murillo which ran into the Northfleet. We give the latest extract to be found in the English papers relative to the same. Still one more tale of shipwreck comes to us from home. “ Horrors on Horror’s head accumulate!” .' .

By advertisement it will be seen that the next auction sale of Gisborne lands will take place in Auckland oh the 28th of May. We are tired of protesting, but do not at all intend to give up the task. Of all the foregone iniquities of the Auckland Government, in their neglect and mismanagement of the affairs of Poverty Bay, this last one is the most unblushing. This is the very acme and crown of all the cool insults slapped in the face of a struggling people, whose virtue is -their unaided energy, and their desire for freedom, their greatest vice. The Provincial Government are determined to weaken us by a process of blood-letting; their object is to deprive us of the sole patrimony left to us, and so to cut off our resources in seeking to conduct our own affairs. We protest, therefore, iu the name of the inhabitants of this, district, against this unseemly haste and method of giving the absentee money-grubbers of Queenstreet a chance of obtaining a footing here at our expense, by holding an auction hundreds of miles away, when there is not the slightest necessity for it. When will the people meet and plan out the seige ? i • 1 ■