THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3355, 23 September 1879, Page 3

THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.

(To the Editor of tho Evening Star.) Sir,—lf lam not asking too much would you'kindly £ive rue space for the following extract from a letter I received from a friend up country :— " Waitoa, August 31st, 1879. " Dear L , I have just heard that our poor noble brown brothers below Omaha potted one of a Government survey party, Row very kind of them to shoot only one ? Surely you eeaerous Thames people that blindly uphold the Grey policy have forgotten to send proper supplies of sugar, flour, &c, &o. See to this atoiice, old fellow. You should know by this time that shooting a pakeha is the only way the natives have of making their wants known ; but you will all be busy now with the elections—be sure and put the man at the head of the poll who will look after the Maori wants. — Yours faithfully, C——." Mr Editor, I will only add the followquotation as illustrative of the policy :— " Fiend, tempt me not with beauty, thou art fnirer Than was tho serpent, and as falsa." tt _ One answer to all questions, 'twas Ms will, And Me is good—how Imow I that? because Me is all powerful, must be all good to follow, , : I judge but by the fruits, and they arc Mkr." I am, &c, Taniwha. Shortland, Sept. 23rd. 1879..