LARRIKINISM IN TE AROHA.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 7, 21 July 1883, Page 3

LARRIKIN ISM IN TE AROHA.

TO THE EDHOIt. SlR>__TheS IR> __The larrikins of Te Aroha are requested nut to overturn the tripod erected over the Trig Station on the summit of Te Aroha, again. The bill of Monga Mongd burnt, was carried to its position by men tor another purpose than to make a lire. Wo arc not boliewr* in the Darwinian theory of the desc m t of man from the tribe of Simindce, but the action of some persons in respect to the overtlnow of the tripod on Te Aroha nukes us feel shaken in our scepticism relative to the descent of some, who have made the ascent of Te Aroha. Huxley has a theory that men are unaccountable for their actions, and if they have hereditary criminal instincts it is an injustice to punish them for doing those things that must como out in the flesh, Inving been bred in the bone. I would fain take this charitable view of the action of the To Aroha larrikin element, at the same time remind th -m that Warden Kenrick, lookiuv at it in a lugal light, and not through Huxley's theory, wV.u'd vjiry likely hu\< >^c a penalty, on convif'ion," i'^r shifting or removing survey marks, tin penalty on w'ueh does not exceed £4').— l am, &c, Kai Kuui.