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Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 424, 15 November 1861, Page 3

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{From the Wellington Independent.) The 'needy knife-grinder' might turn Summarist this month. He could very well say again what he has already said once, ' Story ! Lord bless you, I have none to tell sir.' We happen to be in the same predicament as regards provincial matters —certainly a most ut.fortunate one for a journalist. During the whole month we have hard work to supply the usual quantum of 'leader/ and have had occasionally to resort to a very old practice—that of •chronicling small beer.' Our English contemporaries under similar circumstances are always provided with ' enormous gooseberries ' ' extraordinary cabbages ' and lusus natures in abundance; but we have in vain sought for similar interesting and instructive topics! Wellington, the ♦ hotbed of politics' as it used to be called, has become so altered in this respect, since the thorough defeat of the Wakefield party a year since, that we have not been able to produce a local political article for a long while, and so entirely is ' Othello's occupation gone,' that the journal who professes to represent that now infihitesmal fraction of the community, has, several times during the past few weeks, been obliged to resort to the stock excuse—press of advertisements, interesting and important intelligence, &c.,—lor the omission of its original effusions, Signs op the Times.—No better illustration ol the difference of the feeling existing between, the two races now and this time last year, can perhaps be given than in the fact, that the Bishop of Wellington has recently applied to the Auckland authorities to rent, temporarily, the Upper Hutf Stockade for the purpose of a school and place of divine worship. Coroner's Inquest.—-An inquest was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, before Mark Kebbell, Esq., M.D., Coroner! and a respectable jury, on view of the body of John Hanneke, who died from the effects of falling into a ditch, on Friday morning last. Several witnesses were examined, and after the most patient investigation, the jury returned the following verdict. • That the Jurors are of opinion, that the deceased John George Hanneke died from exhaustion, from iiis accidently falling into a scream of water on the night of the 24th October and the jurors strongly advise that steps should be taken to cover the ditch in. Bread. —The following letter dated Nov. 4th has been addressed to the editor by • Pater Familias.' Seeing by an advertisement in your last issue, that best flour is

Belling at 16s per hundred, or a fraction under 2d. per pound, and that bread is at present, and has been been 3d per pound, perhaps you could inform the public it that is the usual profit the bakers get. I for one will not put up with such a gross imposition, but bake my own bread in self-defence, and I secommend all families to do the same and break up the monopoly. [The price of bread is one that families can do a great deal to keep within moderate profits. The present price of bread bears no j elation whatever to the price of flour, and with the facilities which wood fires give to every workingman's wife to bake her bread in a camp oven, the saving that could be effected by fol'owing • Pater families' plan is very greyt.—E.W.l. NATIVE ADDRESS TO GOVERNOR GREY. The following is the translation of an address recently forwarded to Auckland from some of the principal natives on the West Coast, and obligingly forwarded to us for publication. Otaki, September 5,18G1. To our dear parent, Governor Grey. Salutations to you—The heart is pleased beyond measure at your return, again to become a parent to this island. The news of your return to us your children was as the shock of an earthquake [i.e. created as much Bensation as the shock of earthquake.] What we said to you in our farewell letter of the 12th of June, 1853 was correct, it was this—do not forget us, continue to bear ua in mind, turn your tace hither, look behind you, that is upon us. Welcome honored sir, the excellent [motoi hahurangi, used in speaking of a green stone without flaw—bright and glittering in the sun] and greatly beloved of this Island of New Zealand ; welcome to your children and be the parent of both Europeans and natives. Welcome honored sir; welcome honored sir; welcome the august messenger (manu Mrittiarangi.) h rom you r friend of the one Government. Tamihana Te Rauparaha Matene Te Wiwi Riwi Te Aim Ahu Karamu Horomona Toremi Matenga Te Matia Ropata Hururautu Moroati Kiharoa flanita Waremakatea Tamati Te Tuahu Kingi Te Ahoaho Ripia Ururoa Piripi Te Rangiatahua Kuini Topeora Hoanui Te Okoro Karanama Te Kapukai Hape Te Ilorohau Rapihana Te Otatoa Anatipa Te Nehinihi Takrei Te Nawe Arapata Hauturu The following letter has been addressed by Archdeacon Hadfield to the Duke of Newcastle. Otaki, New Zealand, Oct., 17 1861. My Lord Duke, I beg to call your Grace's attention to a letter contained in Sessional Papers marked E, No. 1, P, and entituled • Further Papers relative to Native Insurrection, No. 1, Copy, of a letter from Eruini Te Tupe to the Governor' dated April 26, 1861, in which there occurs the. following passage :— • I have a word to say to you. I have heard that my brother's and my name were written on the petition for the recall of the Governor. It was not we who wrote them, nor did we see them written. We were asked by Riwai Te Ahu, who said it was by Mr. Hadfield's directions, but we did not give our consent. They oi their own accord wrote (our names) on their paper for the recall of the Governor.' I have only to mark in reference to the charge brought against Rev. Riwai Te Ahu and myself, that it is an unfounded falsehood. As Governor Browne thought fit to give extensive circulation, through the medium of official documents, to the calumnious charge above referred to, I offer no apology for troubling your Grace with this letter, and requesting that it may have the same publicity as the charge which it refutes. I have &c, OCTAVUS HADFIELD. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies.