THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1879.
Hi 3 Excellency the GoTernor and Sir George Grey are by this time in New! Plymouth, and no doubt giving their best attention to the position of native affairs in the Waitara. The feeling is getting | pretty general that the end of this action of TeWhiti/and his followers and by Kereopa on/the^aujjahui side, will be war. Such iroald be a great misfortune to the Colony, and especially to.the district in which hostilities commence, bnt the constant state of uncertainty, as to the proceedings of the discontented section of our natire population isßalready telling upon the (progress/.andj future k prosperity of the country. It has long been the opinion of persons competent to judge, that the natires would*hare another and a final quarrel with the* Europeans, and that . opinion is in a ifair way of being proved correfct. The^Tarajnaki Herald of tfci latest date, wHting tlpon the position! " ■ • '. ':• Vt.v'Vo.'f >:j,-;< .< ■' :.0 ■••■•■■ : i ; Ba7ft:l^',».n.!.-:v ■■•■.■■; ..:'!-."...w., ,.„-, I No portion bf New Zealand has received more checks to'its progress than TaranakH and we suppose we may eipect these drawbacks to continue so long as a native race, antagonistic to Europeans, is dwelling amongst us. The little episode of the native Kipuae during the past week has caused the. business of the town to become almost stagnant, betides being thei osWnsible: cauie bf several intending settlers leaving the place. What district can expect to progress under such disadvantages? But there is a limit to everything, and if the natives have made up their, minds for another brush, with us —and from their sullen looks and bounceable attitude, they appear to be doing their best to make the settlers break the peace—then let the question be settled at once and for ever, for it is no good attempting to push the district ahead, ■while b a lew;' natives can at any time by their lawlessness, throw it years back again in its progress. If the natives are likely to continue to annoy and disturb our peaceful m°de of living, then we feel sure that there is not a man in the place who would not rise to the occasion', and once more try the question with the natives as to which is the strongest. If it should come to this, and we sincerely
hope thftt the Maoris will not drive us to it,,but if it should como to lighting, then we'-linTe veiy little hesitation in saying that the Btrußple will be a short one, and. afterwards this district will never more receive a check toils progress from the' same cause. There are a number of Pakeha-Maoris who are telling the Maoris things that will tend to incite them to fight. The whole district is in a thoroughly unsettled state.
We have not heard of any soriouß damage being dono by tho. gale last night. Several windows were blown in and a number of fences laid low. \ We havo to acknowledge the receipt of Messrs J. H. Clough and Co's Melbourne Station Produce lieporjb of date May i4th. ! ■•■'■' ■,; , ■ ■;■/. ■ ;, ; The annual election of Auditors for the Borough of Thames will take phice oh Monday next; Five gentlemen have been nominated, and through our columns solicit the votes of the burgesses, viz.,: Messrs Woodward, L?e, Skeen, Macky, and Crick.
'■■ We noficeby our telegrams;td-aay that the Chief Eewi visited the office of the Auckland Star. Probably the worthy proprietor thought a sight pf j;he. internal machinery which turns "out ■-'his : fine evening broad,sheet was a-novelty, to the iold Ngatimaniapoto; but Eewi had something to do with a newspaper before ike j;Auckland Star was in existence. T,he Maori King, Potatau/had a printing office managed by a Mr Gorst, and a small paper was published. In 1863 Eewi got incensed at .something. that appeared-in jthis journel akd sent a prtrty of meif'to '] gapg.riss it, and the story qbe«: that they literally obeyed the orderi destroying 3he , printing press and type. > Eewi has now ' \ doub tic SB a better opinion of the virtues of printing ink now than he had 16 years 'ago. ' - . . " ' ;\
; We learn sthat.at the next monthly) 1 meeting of;theCpunty Opuncilitheverbar l ottj&l'of ■,£s&Q;knapVtp 'them for the'*e. demptipn of their jien over the. punlpirig, securities will be considered. We' trust that this; !Wili lead tp something definite being done in the matter of pumping. ■■ By telegrams'from Patea we .learn that the state of natife affairs has entirely suspended' 'all ' business there. The prospects 'are 1 considered very bad,-and the progress of the district, it is Said, has been retarded very considerably. ;; . > Me J. Lißyers announces, that he ? will repeat his lecture at the Academy of Music this evening.-- ... i-.-.-'i j-n:<,''}' Mil Slade, of the Three £ings Theplogical Instrtution, will preach at the Wesleyan Church, Shortland, . to-morrow morning, and at Grahamstown at'nights
At 9 o'clock on Thursday night theUnion Company's s.s. Ladybird, lying alongside the Rattray-Btreet wharf, Dunedin, was discovered with the water pouring into her engine compartment. It had. reached within 18 inches of the.engineroom. Step m was at once got *p; on the donkey engine, and although she threw out large quantities of water it was found to be gaining. By 10 o'clock steam was got up in tho boilers, and the water was nearly out at 12 o'clock.. The cause of the leak is supposed to be that, on the tide going out, she had settled down on a stone. She had only come out of the dock yesterday, and she will be placed in again and surveyed to»day. '"''■ The s.s. Hinemoa sailed at six o'clook last night • from Wellington with the Governor and, Premier for New Plymouth. "'■"'
COONTBY aottlers will find a largo stack of Iron Bedsteads always on ea'.e at J. Q-EIQG.j, Pollen street; also, sewing mach'nes, pianos, harmoniums, door-Hvats, clocks and sund'j other useful articles.—Adtt.
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