The Comerang brought no more reliable intelligence as to the decided position of affairs in the Waikato than what has been received by wire via Napier. That Tawhiao refuses either to allow a search for the murderers, or to voluntarily give them up, is pretty evident, and quite in accordance with his own notions of what is due to his dignity as a sovereign, from a people who have permitted him to establish among them a kingdom which disregards their authority. We have no hope that the diplomatic, begging, procrastination of Mr. Mackay will succeed; and it will yet be found by those who have looked upon this Maori kingdom as a pack of cards, that ere it is knocked about their ears, it will be found to contain more knaves than kings—ergo, less fools than knaves.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 56, 28 May 1873, Page 2
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