THE PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'OLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3218, 12 June 1879, Page 2

THE PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'OLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1879.

Tsli,»fciW£ of } .■■.;tlw[; ; {Faranaki); settlers seems to be thoroughly aroused by the late aggressive iaots; ; of: ITe, Wjhiti and his followers, and moat men will coincide with theni'inl their opinion that now is the time, to terminate the .natircf difficulty for once i and for all. No~time~in the history of the iCelotoyl has such; an o.pppistttnity iprat^ sented itself to a Government to set its foot on the bydra-heided native difficulty, and crush it outpf existence for ever; and Sira George * -:Grey'•■: > Minis try -will übe ■ghffi%' y6P3&i?tekf& error, if tliey db! Btofr grasp' ineprcsorit' opportunity ere it slips beyondstbfjir.reachti } The.ppwer.of .the Ringites' i iii" '■ jtirtually • broken?? by :< the; defection ([ ?bf j theO^Mabri^ sWarwick^ Manga Rewi Maniapotc), ; with' his Ngatimaniappto, following, *?d ak;-.fch«K present time if Tawhiao adopts an openly aggressive p'olicyj, \':^'l j- would.' bring Maori Kingism to an abrupt conclusion^ The head centre of the, present difficulty? is *£# Whiti, who 1 has''obtained a moral 1 influence over the MaoK^niind by assuming a semi-sapernatural character, and by predictions? and prophesies jof the future gra'rideur'of'the JMaort race, and the i discomfitureof tlieir enemies,' the pakehas; The Nativ;e;.mind is naturally prone to i believe in the supernatural, especially I when aptnetKing they, wish r to believe is' ' effected, and the best antidote tobring them ' to their senses is to show that in depending on To Whiti they have been trusting to a' broken reed. The arrest of Te Whiti and the other bright and saining lights of Parihaka, for sedition* and dealing < adequate punishment out to them, would show their 1 deluded followers the power of the European- race, and the utter uselessness of their trying conclusions with them. It isl a disgrace that a handful of Natives I should defy a colony with close on naif a million of white inhabitants, and is cer« Mainly a new phase in the history of European colonisation, and the> ( of the dominant and the conquered race. Let the strong hand of the law break up Parihaka, and bring Hiroki and the other Maori murderers at largo to justice, sell' the Waimate Plains, and tho present difficalty'will; we believe, dissolve like morning mist beforo tho sun. From an extract from the Herald's Taranaki correspondent, which* we re-publish in to-day's issue, it would appear some of the Natives mixed up iti tho recent ploughing match have unsatisfied claims for hind, grants haviug been promised them by the Government in 18(36, in consideration of their abstaining from participating in the

Rebellion. The Gorornmcnt, if they find these claims have any foundation, should certainly give the Natives what they are ■justly entitled < to, and they doubtless wil.l appoint a Commission to enquire into the matter, but those who aro creating .'a disturbance from other motives should be dealt with according to the law of the land.