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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 60, 11 June 1873, Page 2

The Homfe’s Bag Herald hears that Mr. Locke has come out of the Unwesa country. The meeting which he held with the aatives of that tribe was a very satisfactory one. e

It is stated that Mr. Vogel’s paper, the SouMern Cross, has been bought up by a limited liability company, Mr. Vogel getting £4,000 for the plant and goodwill. The chief shareholders are Capt. Daldy, and Messrs. W. 8. Grahame, Vogel, and Stannus Jones. The capital of the company is £lO,OOO, in shares of £1 each. Messrs. Arthur and Rechab Harding have been committed for trial before the Supreme Court for the destruction of the culvert on the Middle Road, at South Havelock, on the 14th inst. Much public sympathy will no doubt be felt, and justly felt, for these young men in the extremely serious position in which they now find themselves. Their share of guilt in the transaction, it is clear enough, consisted merely in their too great facility in carrying out Mr. John Harding’s instructions. No sentiment, however, of course can be allowed to impede the operation of the law in such a case as this; otherwise, we enter, at once, on an era of anarchy and misrule. — Hawke's Bay Herald. Perhaps the tallest talk ever talked is contained in President Giant’s late message to Congress. In one passage he remarks: —“ As commerce, education, and the rapid transit of thought and matter by telegraph and steam have changed everything, I rather believe that the Great Maker is preparing the world to be•come one nation, speaking one language, a consummation which will render armies and navies no longer necessary. 1 will encourage and support any recommendations of Congress tending towards such ends.” “ Congress, in fact,” as the Spectator observes, “ has the President’s full consent to help the Almighty in his work, which is to assist the Republic to absorb all creation.” Mahia.—The Mahia correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald furnishes that paper with the two following letters which, as shadows ber fore coming events, have their significant meaning : —“ Mr. Drummond, on receipt of Mr. Locke’s letter, recommenced his work of laying out the telegraph line ; but it is only allowed to do so by the natives on condition not to allow any native to accompany him. This little objection is to show that although the chiefs of the various ha pus have consented, their people have not, and we may look for another obstruction when the poles are going to be erected', unless the Government previously come to some arrangement. The two letters below, which were shown to me lately, will give you an ide* of the political movement on foot among the Heretaunga natives. ‘To Paora Apatu, of Te Wairoa. Friend, —Salutations to you. May God preserve you, in Jesus Christ. Your house is rotten and tumbling in; but if you wish to preserve it abandon the pakeha Government and join us Maoris and’let us go back to thfe laws of our ancestors.—Henarr Koura (Majtua.) ’ *To lhaka Whanga, of Nuhaka. Friend, —Salutations to you. Let not your heart lead yonr thoughts away from us, where they perhaps are now, but be kind to us and have regard to your children.—Hakawira.’ After old lhaka h id read this letter carefully over and over again, the old chief laid it on one side, and said to those around him ‘ This means mischief, aid all the kindness that I can show them is

a good feed, and let them go their way. We have had troubles enough with the king and Hanliau movements, and (I am speaking for myself) I will stay where I am, and let me advise you all to do the same; evil will come of it. I can see the flood rising.’ Henare Koura is daily expected here, with numerous followers from the settlements down the coast. His object in coming, it is said, is to get a petitition signed to be sent to Parliament, collect money, and form a Union, so that when all efforts fail, to do what ? ”