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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1306, 10 April 1883, Page 2

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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) “TE KOOTIPHOBIA.” I did not at this particular time intend to return to this already well-ventilated subject, but as some more “ reprisals ” have just come to hand, I am perforced to, by “ serious native obstructions, and imprisonment of European surveyors. ” Are not my words prophetic that “ there are those who will always keep the ‘Native difficulty ’ agitating whilst there is anything to be made out of it?” The doughty Premier is off somewhere, and isn’t it mysterious that these false prophets should always originate in, and arise from, out of the west nigh unto Taranaki ? (“ Post” said Te Kooti was one, but he never aspired to that) ; and that the Hursthouse-cuni-Rich-mond-cum-Atkinson family should be always mixed up with them. Sir George Grey was not very wide of the mark, when he stated that that little family connection had been the meaus of embroiling the Colony into all kinds of expensive difficulties. If “the serious Native disturbance” be not a canard, should not coercive measures be taken to firmly suppress this kind of hubbub ? and no more of the pandering nonsense allowed; or else wc shall have “false prophets” ad infinitum arising N.S.E.W., to have their “ bread buttered.” Sharp, quick, and decisive action is wanted, as 1868, to replace senile, meandering and muddling ways, or we shall perhaps have Poverty Bay reenacted ; therefore, stamp out for ever this open rebellion. Why ! Mr Bryce docs not come within an echo of the shadow of the shade of our much deplored Native Minister in action, poling, or anything else ; and Heaven knows Sir Donald was compassionate, tender, and merciful enough to the Natives, beyond ordinarily human endurance. It is well they have not a Bismarck, Von Moltke, oraGortschakoff to deal with ; the former veteran of “iron will” would soon dispel thoillusory “ Native difficulty.” Pah ’ the very writing of those two words, fraught with so much chicanery, is most nauseous, and noisome to the last degree. But after all, it may be “ only the usual hub-bub” stirred up by interested parties just before the meeting of Parliament! Oh ’ their machinations are so deep. Reverting to old Manga Rewi being as yet unchristianised. That wily redoubtable old chief, finds it “ pays better not to be brought within the influence of the fold” by the good shepherds. For ctueness, cunning, and craftiness, he far outstrips the general run of the Pakeha, and is “ up” to tho moves, and “down” to the skilful strategies of the “ R-I-N-G” oven I He towers head and shoulders above hia besotted Majesty Tawhiao, aye, as mighty Tongariro or Eg. mont are compared with the smallest hillock. He is what Sir Arthur Gordon would term a “ Light on the Mountain.” Now for a valedictory to the “ Post” : “ Let whate’er thou aim’st at be for thy country, God, and truth,” and NOT merely for pelf and “ fifty lucre.”