Wanganui Chronicle AND PETEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1879.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 4053, 4 June 1879, Page 2

Wanganui Chronicle AND PETEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." WEDNESDAY, J UNE 4, 1879.

0 and a short shrift," was the remedy jxuc contemporary advocated . onSaturday'sissue for.the P&keha-Maim trili4, wuose'secret influence" is exercised so disastrously aa respects the dealing with tlje natives mid Ihe peace of the colony- .' It there staged that a story i8 cnrre«t!!of;a-,latoi visitor to the Plains nativesVactUally; submitting an offer that, iifj ( ttieyjW9u.ld,rnise a fund of £2,000, he would] m^o(tkvt , : :plaoe: ; the native claim to the cancellation of all confiscation Jjefore the^Priyy^GuuWl* of England. oonf3HArihg.'>(ihe'' position our contempurary occupies aa the favoured organ, of West Coast [PMRPJ^/HJ"^ t^ almost certainty • ft^h. tfiSth* J He " Btra ! i o ll , fc - as t<> Minis" snßSs5 nBSs tnja/'fe^eciM 'Government-sent teleJlaftit^ehe tWitii{Wt!fn£ by Especially sent l^*era«ffent>^4nfcV l 6f the " tact " with w.hiohftCaiitaii^BKke''' was dealing with it!)9*HlaJus difficulties, and of the "golden l^igiM 1 ??." wKiolt Jytn iHackay was winning lro ™o!:%^Ms?li4) {Considering, we say, the special advantages which our contemporary.- acknowledges, and sometimes '6hufik'les atKavTriV, it might hare gone a little further" and, told its readers that ytliisifsiihe Pa'kehH-Maori miscliief-maker was an intimate {tc()ivaintance of the Hon the Native Minister, and the favoured, .specially familiar' Qtntidant of Sir George GTrey, or . 's ths old.man," as he usually termed him. According to this PakehaMaori mischief-maker, " the old man " was goldeu, whilst Mr Sheehan, in spite 'ofttitfminy then due and still unrequited obligations; was but dross as regarded personal influence over the Maori people, ciheehau Was good,, but " the old man " ■ ft 'lvJ u ;£Jl- ■ The Government organ might have mentioned that this same Pakelia--MttonV who from the first appearance :ol (Captain Blake and Mr Mackay on the Plains, acted in- the treble capacity of Government trumpeter, uud Press Agency, us well as wo believe Press .Association correspondent, being in ho way particular, as he frequently boosted on how miny sides his bread was 1 butterod— was the first to instil pernicious counsels into the minds of the Hains and Pariliaka natives, to tell them of alleged promises made by Sir Donald McLean, .and, encourage, them to set their badkg- up against the' European occupation of tha Plains. The doings of this . Pakeha- Maori are unfortuuately too well known, and the resulting, mischief too apparent to be any longer ignoied. The lengthy telegrams and letters which appeared in Wellington — in Government .organs all over the colony, in fact— from this reviler of Major .Brown, and trumpeter of Government and Government.agents, needs no recapitufatiuii. They hive been read the i length, and, breadth of tho colony. "A long rope and a' short thrift,"ia the remedy prop ised by our contemporary, to clear !out 06 ihe Ma.V< *H such. What, however, we should like to ask of the men who- employ- such tools, who tolerate their fuiniiiarities, and who grant special wire privileges to^ucb mischief-makers ? There is much indeed which our contemporary might have explnined in connection wilh the two thousand ppunder Pakeha-Maori, which -wouid,. doubtless astonish the 'geheral^^blicj but_which it might be construed into ii/>el to relato. •< A long ,roM add ashrort-shrift.'' I Will our contemporary kindly finish the story, and fit ..t.lio .cap to the men vvlio have done so much to hasten the." good-bye to English (-•ftpitnl," which it fears the colony will so sorin have/to bid.