Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4363, 9 March 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1893.

second edition

Mr Bees, M.Q.R,, is another of those uncompromising liberal patriots whom we are accustomed to lave and admire, He ever has an axe on the grindstone, and his present weapon, to use a Byronio expression, Is "my own-my native land," Op Friday last he endeavoured to convert the settlers of Hawke's Bay to bis project for making Native committees th cure-all of Native land ttansfe difficulties, but was not altogether 'successful; for at Napier they know as much about Native lands as Mr Bees, and they are equally dininterested in them. In a lengthy address Mr Eees pointed out the difficulties in transferring Native lands under the preGent law, but as a lawyer he might be supposed to love difficulties, to leed on sucli complications and wax Sat, Ho must be something more than a lawyer, or ho would not care to have the law simplified in such a way that members of hie own profession would be thrpwn put of work 1 and have to join the ranks of the unemployed, He is something more than a lawyer, be is a patriot, and the Napier people even seemed to .think he had a little game on, One in particular accused the immaculate Mr Eees of wanting the House to sanction a paid Commissionorship to put matters straight. This was suggestive! ' Tjien Mr Bees declared that the Native jDapds Court Was a theatre of professional perjurors, bjit from the published report of bis speech, wo do not quito gather whether he was paying a delicate compliment to members of his own profession p'f was flattering the Nativeswho were instructed by them, However, the Napier peoplo sat upon Mr Eees anil his project, and in bis wrath the patriot turned on them and declared that he had never dabbled in Native lands and that they had. Which was pot ?nd whioh was kettle in the fray we dQ nqt protend to saj, but it may be taken for gianted tliat our Napier friends have bnooked the bottom out pf Mr Keps' projeot, and that the Colony nifty be thankful for this mercy. Of course the best means of relieving the Maori of his paternal acres is a momentous question, but if it wore relegated to the Knights of Labour it might be solved, or even if a graduated land tax too applied to Native estates some good might result. Tho land has to pass, and perhaps IJjfl jsoppejr it passes the better, but Mr Bees is not tho man we should select to do (he passine;.