TE KOOTI’S PARDON.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1300, 24 March 1883, Page 2

TE KOOTI’S PARDON.

. Tin: following is a Lir sample (says a Taranaki paper; of the strong feelings which prevail in thu Hawku’s Bay District, and is taken from the conespondence columns of the “ Hawke's Bay Herald:’’--** I can assure ; you that it was with feelings of great satis- | f faction that I read in your columns a letter telegraphed from the Southland “Times” emanating from Mr Whitely King, the editor ; -f the M itaiira “ Ensign,” with reference to ho panion granted to thu arch fiend Te Kooti ’\v the li-ii!<-r-«ble ?»!: Bryce. I ti 11st that the •.virc in question may he spread tlir uurhout he length nnd Breadth of the. land, and that lit- public and the public prints throughout he Colonie - ami at Holm- io.iy denounce the conduct of trie Htiwiblc Mr Bryce. I have been many ye.irs in the Cok-nies and have

raced the career of that wretch Te Kooti, nd cannot find that there is one redeeming < uality in hie savage ahd bloodthirsty career. ' >lr Bryce, however, apparently thinks other- ’ vise, and actually shakes hands with a brutal ; nd cowardly murderer. Let Mr Bryce, or j its friend Tu Kooti, take a trip to Poverty : 3ay, and I am certain that they will meet vith rather a warm reception. Mr Bryce • vill no doubt, as one of the members of the Government, escape personal violence, but le will be met with a howl of indignation i *’lncli will reach the scene of his favorite's • daughter grounds and graves of the murdered ? nothers and children. Shame on a man who ?.in so prostitute the office to which he has i been appointed ; shame on the < Government : who van connive at these unheard of and un- i preecdenced proceedings, and still greater j shame on the community at large who do not ; boldly and fearlessly give expression to their opinions through the public prints, As for the pardoned murdered Te Kooti, I have . only one wish to express, and that is that the Honorable Mr Bryco may send him up t by the Government steamer Hinemni to Gisb'»rne, and that his arrival may be duly noti- i tied. I for one can anticipate tho reception, ; and I can imagine the result, as many there ' have sworn to have an eye for an eye and a • tooth for a tooth, whatever the consequences ! may be. And who can blame them ? Show i mercy to a scoundrel like that I Certainly i not 1 1 say hang him up to the monument ; erected to the grave of his victims, and shoot I him like a dog.