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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1370, 18 October 1883, Page 2

Our oorybantic contemporary has at last, acknowledged the fact there are “ two sides to a question.” This admission, coming from such a source, is worthy of every attention. Hitherto we have been unable to impress the fact upon them that there is always a right and a wrong, a just and an unjust, a bold and a cowardly, a true and a false, a clean and a dirty, a honest and dishonest, an upright and a grovelling, a light and a dark, a generous and a despicable and cowardly side to every question, and it has also been our painful task and endeavor to show that in every instance, where possible, they have invariably chosen the latter side’ The consistency of that Bcetian Chronicle will be seen in its true light when we take into consideration the fact that notwithstanding the extraordinary amount of interest they seem to have evinced of late in all matters in connection with the Native Land Court, not one syllable has escaped them about the severe censures and well-merited rebukes, which have been dealt out with no unsparing hand in the most vigorous manner from the seat of justice against those shameless agents of the Company, who have, by their scandalous actions, outraged all equity and justice. Why did they not show the “ two sides ” to those questions —the right and the wrong ? Why did not these drivelling twaddlers take notice of the grave charges mide by Katarina Kahutia against those who had so greatly wronged her, and of the ominous words spoken hytne judge? of the impounding of the doubtful deeds? No! it was rightly left to us to step forward in our usual fearless manner, and in clear and umnistakeable words to show not alone the “two sides ” of the question, but also which side we were on—viz,, that of justice and truth. Our statement was penned in the interests of honeste and truth, and from conscientious convictions. The howl of the wolf is not likely to be mistaken for the bleat of the lamb.