THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3723, 30 November 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1880.

Feom a telegram in another column it will be seen that Tuhi, the native"suspected of the murder of the unfortunate young lady, Miss Dobie, at Opunake, has confessed to the perpetration of the crime. What motive this depraved villain could have had, is at present unknown, but the probability is that he was actuated to commit the murder from political feelings. Te Whiti, it is to be presumed, is alive to 1 the hopelessness of an open rebellion, and has commissioned natives to commit dastardly outrages. Life and property are placed in peril by his suggestive utterances, and although he may not actually give his sanction to the murderous attacks on Europeans, there is little doubt he works up his followers to the committal of crime by his fanatical speeches, which make them discontented with their lot in life, and consider themselves basely ill-used individuals. It is to be hoped that the Government will not show any mercy to this detestable murderer Tuhi, and that he will be accommodated with a stout rope and a long drop.. If they, in their leniency, fail to mete out justice to this fiendish criminal, they will show themselves in the light they have long been seen in by the public, as devotees of the Worshipful Exeter Hall Party, who consider the poor dusky aboriginal races as of infinitely more value than the European. It is positively disgraceful that so much latitude*should be allowed to such hypocritical orators as Te Whiti, and the sooner something is done to make life and property safer, the better.