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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1283, 26 February 1883, Page 2

We have received the following telegram from a gentleman well known in Wellington : — Wellington, Friday, 23rd Feb. Editor Poverty Bay Standard. Your article protesting against the action of the so-called Native Minister finds an echo in the minds of thousands of settlers, No one but a coward and dishonrable man would have acted like Bryce has done against all principles of law and justice. Everyone may rest assured that the Poverty Bay Standard will never change its opinion as to the contemptible action taken by Mr. Bbyce, and should he ever reach the shores of Gisborne his reception will be a warm one There are a great many liviLg here who have cause to lament the murder of their friends or relatives by the hands of Te Kooti and his followers. The tone of other papers in New Zealand will never alter ours. Some of them allude to the murderous ruffian as a ‘‘rebel chief,” Te Koon never was a chief; here he was known a consummate and clever thief. The error may possibly have arisen from the assimilarity of the terms This we stoutly assert, the people of Poverty Bay will never support a Government which for landsharking purposes will pardon a wretch such as Te Kooti : nor will they ever pay to Mr. Bryce the respect generally considered to be due to a member" of the Ministry. Everyone in Poverty Bay felt, proud of Mr. Bryce when he took so firm a stand at Parihaka, but now almost everyone in the District would endeavour to arm himself with rotten eggs if that bosom friend of a murderer were to place his foot in the District.