ANOTHER GROWL FROM THE COUNTRY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2522, 5 February 1877, Page 3

ANOTHER GROWL FROM THE COUNTRY.

- (To the Editor .of'the Evbhing Stab.) . Sib, —I see the;present Native Minister has had an interview with the Natives at Alexandra. • He talks bravely ; his state- . ments smack very much of the despotic. Di Pollen said any promises which it could be distinctly proved had been made by Sir Donald McLean would be carried out by him. arid the Government. His ne.xt proposal contradicts the first one— •when' the 'chiefs asked how about the Waikato^ands"—we cannot arrange anything until that is finally disposed-of. The Doctor's next reply^ said it was no use alluding to Waikato': the land there was absolutely gone; and even if the Government desired to restore it to the Natives - they could - not do so. What a pity such an "obstacle should arise.in the Doctor's ..way, or he could have fulfilled the offers made by his predecessor. Those few settlers being located on the Waikato land prevent the Doctor from carrying out the noble project of giving the whole of those fine lands back to the Kingites. Oh! how mighty generous the Doctor, is ; he would give a promise to rebels, and he and his Government here kept the most of those lands from the Thames to Waikato in a state of nature, just trying to please rebels and ►' shut out, the honest, legitimate settler. This Abolition Government is a wonderfully despotic power, they give money away to rebels, foreigners. Aye, sir! the King natives here- laid in a good supply of a»ais and ammunition with our money, given, to them by the powers that be—in both cash and land—and .now, forsooth, the Doctor promises them more, of the Waikato. '-' I.wonderdf the Doctor will ■ give them all of the unsettled portion of that large distnct,-and the old and hardy settlers will not be allowed to buy one single acre?, -But they, the Government, nave condescended to lease them a few fern hills, at Is. per acre, and after a year's residence they put a direct tax on these serfs of their making. This Abolition power is a mighty power, it sets up rebels to be acknowledged King;- it brings strangers and foreigners from afar, by chartering vessels of large powor to inundate the county with paupers- and loafers, but the honest and industrious, they chain to the Ohinemuri hills—fern clad hills—at Is an acre rental, without road or any way of communication; save by that ancient mode of packing by back. Well, all I can say is, they are a long-' suffering people-to put up with all this mighty and heavy, burden of taxation to keep this supreme Government ■ that abolished everything that was good and noble,' and instead- levied*taxes on the. . public of every, description to keep rebels, pay for fine ships to bring out foreigners, , - and make place and power for themselves and their friends, and ye ola settlers they tax ye to keep up all this paraphernalia of show; and again I say, theygive ye a few fern clad hills to work out this mighty