THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3340, 5 September 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1879.

As might have been anticipated, the New Zealand Times goes for the Ministry orer the outrage by Pakara and his people. Ever on the look out for any circumstance which can be twisted to the disadvantage of the Government, the editor of this violent party journal, not content with mis-stating the facts, proceeds to draw upou his imagination for further grounds upon which to bmld up his articles. Fair deductions from the statements to hand are allowable, but when a writer for party purposes can so impose upon the good nature of his readers, and, taking advantage of his position, mislead them, he merits the contempt and mistrust with which all his writings are received. To make capital of the present state of affairs up the river, the editor of this journal, which, from being the most trusted and respected daily in the colony, has fallen to be looked upon,as one of the most unreliable and violent party organs of the Opposition, proceeds in a late' issue to attack great political importance to the circumstances, and says that " war is imminent and cannot be averted." The article goes

on to say: — "The news affords, unfortunately, a dire confirmation of the distrust expressed by the House of Representatives last session. The necessary promptness is again wanting; Mr Shceban has decided to take no steps towards arresting the assassins. European law and vicma ate again to be lowered in the eyes of the Maoris. The Hauraki chiefs are to supersede the Judges of the hind. Maori chiefs are to pass sentence on the rebels. It is more than likely that their verdict will greatly,resemble Te Whiti's, when he avowed his intention of sheltering Hiroki from the white man's law, and declared the Native Minister to be a thief of the laud. We have never treated the Maori difficulty as a question. It is the duty of every man to avoid saying or pub* lishing anything which may incroase the excitement most undoubtedly stirred up in the minds of the natives by the first shot fired by the rebel Maoris with the intent to destroy life. Nevertheless, wo assert that if these rebei assassins should succeed in making their way into the King country, nothing short of a miracle can save the -colony, from another war." We who know that no want of prompt* ness was shown by Mr Sheehan, and that probably the end; will show the course taken by the Native Minister was the wisest and the only one open to follow under the circumstances. If the ends of justice are served, and the possibility of further complications avoided, none will be hold enomgh to state that either the majesty of the law or the manor of the Europeans has been lowered in the eyes of the Maories: quite the contrary, proving to those people that while able and prepared to carry out instructions by the force of arms, the good sense of our rulers chose * more peaceable, but equally as effective a mode of obtaining the desired end. It it

Rcalumny on the natires of this district to class them with the fanatics of Te Whiti —men influenced by the rarings and utterances of a madman. The leading natires of tho Thames bare before to-day shown their loyalty, and the result, *c are assured, will prore bow worthy they were o( the confidence reposed in them by the Native Minister.