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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1310, 17 April 1883, Page 2

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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NGA MAORINETTES. I feel fully persuaded that nine-tenths of the people of New Zealand, and a vast majority of the entire universe, will feel dreadfully disgusted at the misrepresentation and pervertion of facts as those conveyed in that precious and highly gilded communication to the London “Times,” and which was reproduced in the Poverty Bay Standard, of sth April, and will at the same time feel deeply grateful for your able leader concerning it, every word of which will be endorsed by ninesteaths as to its incontestable accuracy, and applaud the writer for so truthfully showing up the menial and servile pullers of tho strings, by which our puppet Ministry (1) are made to dance so frantically, and made to jump about from one place to another with such agility and alacrity, whilst the Hon. Treasurer is wafting abroad his impracticable and hood-winking Insurance scheme—rightly termed a sctieme ! when it is the outcome of the abilities of such talented monetary schemers! The scheme being heralded forth to delude and draw off those who are following up tho iand trail of those veritable “snakes iu the grass.” A time will come when they will sink to rest after their torpid gluttony, and then woe betide the terrestrially ana torrified gluttons; a rapid descent will be made by the erst-while terrified pur« sued, and a quick despatch given to the pursuers of Buoh ungodly and venomous grasping. The foregoing is a neat paragraph on terra. Docs it suit thee O Post and kin ? Another violent tug has just been given at the wire—when, Hey 1 Presto ! quick and change. The “Poet” of the 13uh inst., has a subleader on “The Northern Natives,” which amply endorses what the Standard has all along reiterated—that justice for the East Coast and justice for the West Coast are two totally different things, the compound making up the material of justice for the one, is egregiously at variance with the other j and the “ Post ” shows any amount of choler now, and is highly incensed because the madcap Mahuki and Co. have not nad their full deserts meted out to them, and are deploring the “ wait-a-bit-there’s-no-hurry ” system j when, but a short time ago, it belched forth it rattling fusiUde of effete musketry-— veritable “Tower Busses " —because sharp, active, justifiable, but deplorably ineffectual measures as yet are suggested to have Te Kooti made amenable for his past exploits and murderous designs. Without exception I 1 deem the “ Post ” of the present day to be the most venaf t inconsistent and shifty journal it has ever been my obligatory lot to peruse during the whole course of my existence-; and its obsequiouisnosa is on a par with the scene-shifting trickeries of the present Ministry to whom IT humbly prostrates itself to do golden homage. *' Homo vesier devenio,” liberally translated, “I’m your man "--at any price Bays “your own.” Oh, lucre! lucre ! ! filthy lucre !I! What questionable devotion ia given to possess thee, by all sects and classes of humanity ; and what expc dients are adopted by the already opulent to embrace it, and eteadfaatly hold fust and fttick to thee !

I The “Post” says “ Just as we pointed ■ out yesterday, that the law does not apply j equally to both races, that Maoris may with i comparative impunity break the law, treat it with open contempt, outrage and rob the Queen’s subjects, and commit all sorts of brutal and lawless violence. It is greatly to be feared that they will push the argument to its logical sequence, and conclude that they may safely carry their lawlessness one step further and murder Government officers without running the risk of any very severe penalty. Mahuki and his brother scoundrels went so far as to openly state that Messrs Hursthouse and Newsham would have been put to death had they resisted, and to threaten that they would gibbet or crucify the Native Minister.” Law ’ that is charming Mr Te Kootiphobia ! as if we had not pointed that out ages ago, and the realities borne out by the frightful atrocities so fearfully experienced and demonstrated by the diabolical acts of violence perpetrated in Poverty Bay in 1808, Well, Mr Phobia, you are the coolest individual I ever camo across, Contrast your writings but a few days ago with the above extract. I cannot tell which to admire most, your impudence of restling upon other people’s assertions, which you father with “bare-faced effrontery,” or your seeming naivette. You remind me forcibly of one of Udolpho Wolfe’s unique advertisements relative to his schnapps and the prigging of “ my thunder,” and the “ Post” winds up with :—“ltis certainly very unfortunate that the native obstruction, even when accompanied by excessive violence, highway robbery, and attempted murder, should have been judicially | proclaimed to be so light and trivial an offence.” What we only ask for Te Kooti is that he shall be judicially tried. Look out, Te Kooti, see what you may expectin future at the “ Post’s” hands, after that Native reprisal ; also ye Europeans contrast it with the articles published in that journal recently and others recording the wrongs “the obliging, good-tempered, and wronged Te Kooti” has suffered, and Angels wiii weep over eonsisleney, truth, and evtue.