CORRESPONDENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 162, 22 May 1873, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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To the Editor of the Waikato Times. g IB) — When Cyrus Hatay wa3 arrested and tried for flreraising and attempted murder in Auckland, wo were treated in the pages of the Cross with column upon, column of printed matter, in which the enormous magnitude of his crime, and the importance oi v his safe custody, to- prevent a recurrence of such like attacks in future, were the chief topics descanted on. Some time after another attempted murder occurred — this time'|near Cambridge, in Wiukato*— tdie intended assassins being some rebel natnes who actually succeeded in wounding their intended, victim, and only failed in their design, through being disarmed. On this occasion the Cross publishes about a dozen lines, in which it depracates the exaggerated rumours that were bcuig spread about concerning the affair, and" explaining that the alleged crime was " merely a quarrel between some natives and a European." I knew at the time that this was a gross falsehood; but as any native disturbances would only reflect upon the immaculate policy of the Xutire Minister, the Crow suffered its readers to remain in error. Some months after, a brutal murder perpetrated by the self-same unlives, m nearly the same spot, occurred. The murder was deliberately plannc 1, and executed without the slightest provocation* Yet, again* the Crosi publishes the same lying statement " It is merely an outcome of the quarrel between the natives and the murdered man," and wo aro told to " attneh no political significance to it." Also wo must " wait patiently," and not " embarrass the Government " by "riw haste" in bringing the murderers to justice. The difference with wluc'i tho impartial Cross speaks of an attempted crime bv a puny individual, who, probably, had some just grounds of revenge, and who was at all times within easy reach of justice, and of a murder cooly planned, and committed without the slightest provocation, onnn innocent individual, is indeed, most remarkable, if not unaccountable. It is the craven and cowardly policy carried out by the Government, of which the Cross is anturally so ardent n ("importer, that has led. to this murder and bloodshed. The unprovoked and '•till unavenged murdor of tho Eev Mr Whiteley, at the White Cliffs, and of Messrs Todd and Lyon, in- Waikato, hare naturally had the effect of rendering the ruthless natives wholly regardless of human life, knowing, as they do full well, that they enn shed blood with impunity. As a settler, hourly exposed to the lelfsame risks as these four innocent victims, I bog to enter my solemn protest- agninot their cruel deeds being any longer allowed to go unpunished. — I am, &.c , Ssnr/Kn, I Te Awamutu.

A Dtamtssixfi Cask—" Deed, mim-ter, I maist tbinlc ahnmo to come to yon," *:iiil nn old dame who had sought tho clergyman's fcmdlv offices for the same purpose on. four previous"" occasions. " What's the matter, Margaret, that you bllould think sh vne to come \o me 9 " " Deed, sir. it's list this— l tine come to seek you to marry me again." "Well, ?.[ir'nret, I do not sop t'mt you have any occasion to think shame to come for any such a purpose. Marriage, you know , is honornWo in all."' "Dfeed lu't, sir, but Ihaehadowrc muckle o't already. I believe there never was ony poor woman plagit wi sic deem* bodies o' men as I h.io been. If you make love tn a widow who has a daughter tw enty >e.irs younger than herself, Lc^iu by declaring that you thought they wore sistcis.