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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1284, 27 February 1883, Page 2

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TE KOOTI AGITATION.(rnoM OVB OWN COKRBSrOJWIf NT,) Imitate Virtuous Meitj Acain does the ‘ ’ Post” of the 22nd Feb, indulge in a leader on the above subject, and most humbly I approach and Hraw at tention thereto, for the condos tension In noticing." even the Poverty Ba X StanoAßd, which has a leading article irresistibly ludicrous, notwithstanding its VainFul subjpet, in Its hysterical ravings against the am meaty and it also takes t I task other Influential journals for "high falutin.” Whatever does that mean ?, the- highest dietitpiary authorities are mute c«i it J "big gooseberry,” "small villages,” "berlood, an<Li“ ker-rime,” and "polysyllabic thunder,” evidently the writer has visited the "Via" Theatre, London, in days of yore. Well I well 1 wonders will never ueaee ! of all the portentous, self-sufficient writer? in New Zealand, or elsewhere, oommend me io the sensational writer of the “Post’s" 22nd February’s leader. High and mightiness, verbosity, and ignorance of the true subject matter, are here all combined. No actual knowledge of the facts and stern realities are at all represent! id, these do possess, but the “ Post” depends upon any information it collates from untj-ustworthy sources, lU. d that goes forth to the world in all its glaringly false and censorial absurdity, which I hope will be received at its full value — nil — and taken with a yranv salts. To m the leader up in as few words as possible—it amounts to simple abuse, slang, and the bringing into unfavorable comparison the actions of a former Mini ster, who is now " gathered in ” with the victims of the massacre of 9th Not ember, ’( ,8, and honor, fame, and grief enshrining ths >m ; whilst the actions of the Minister of to-! lay will be ever recollected for their osten tati-t us show and mean-spirited truckling, and whl marched a great army—not altogether wit? out expense—before a lot of fanatics, led by a man whose sole war-cry and commands Wert i “ no violence,” and then the over-awing for ces were marched back again without elf- icting anything beyond detaining in cuntod y—still further expense—the very man wl'io I stayed blood and carnage. (“Post,” like Cap tain Cuttie, will please "when found taki ■ note on” these expressions. ) After thi s fearful emeute, be it remembered, and or W friend Te Whiti, who has really conserved t be peace of the Colony—the Government h now set free and par» doned the veriest reprobate unhung! the good-tempered Te Kabti t ! Ye spirits of Winiataand others cry aloud, and yell in derision.

In former years p rompt mid instant action were absolutely n< ibded, the necessity for which was the imm tdiate peril surrounding the peaceful settler, I, all unawares—no time was afforded in awaiting the sitting of Parliament and its tare ly action, to make a law to meet the expedie »ey of every case, else the whole of the white p opulation of the North Island have been exte rwdnated ; and so discretonary power was gi' w >n and vested in the then Native and Defence- iMinister and colleagues, the Governor ffimcWl ing. It is all Very fine for Mr Bryce tri stsp in at this present juncture and reoeiv*: all I he kudos, after the Ways and means have bee n so well prepared and laid out for him by working on past experiences.

As to To Kooti Wing good tempered, active obliging and h l«. conduct irreproachable (so the wahines s; rid) " is too utterly too too,” and so was his ai <1 in seizing the Rifleman in which he escape! I from the Chathams, murdering one the gi lard there, and casting an Old Jonah of the- if own party overboard, on the return voyag>» to Poverty Bay, in order to counteract the baffling winds, &o. Does the "Post” remember these little obliging attentions and ecoentrioltles, all of which no doubt were per fectly justifiable, legal and pleasant, but, can «o much be said of the verbosity and fem-some consequence embodied In the concluding sentences, and above all the "gooseberry" rot of the “ Post’s" article? to whose mellifer«tu verbiage (good words those) I earnestly and specially draw' the attention of all mankind, and those inhabiting Roverty Bay especially as they call for no further notice at my hands but I leave to an enlightened and discerning public to discover, who possesses the best knowledge, tho»e who are armed with incontrovertible and unvarnished facts, or those who sit in their comfortable Editorial chairs, fulminating and casting forth broad-cast, empty blasts, and mendacious vapouring!,