Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 667, 29 August 1876, Page 3

Correspondence.

||j- Our Corres/iontkncp columns being impartially open to all mattert of public intfirit, ice cannot he. idintified with thf, opinions therein exprtised.

Sir, — I notice in your i«me of < he 19tb iii»tant a letter fr<m Mr X E M Campball U[ holding the policy of ■fttlmg vitlivr* among Eurrpeat ■ ou the Watpa. I can diituifiui«b a vast difference in Ihf» com} armon ho draws between Takfrei ie R»u, and th« other «'i-re<el« as b« ttyten them who hold land and have I*»'<H >t. Mr OftmpJtoll mnif, know, *i lie ■eem< •»> wtll informed on iho mljeot, that Talierii waa given the Jaud

oiily oh the expttss oiiiiitoii, ih-u he gtoil'l (omd in ami livd on it, ard not t«. lias© it to anyone Hi" oi>j-i tof the G- ivcrntucnt be'iu to o(T-r lnm au indu>m>>nt to throw ift h.s alle^Mm-r fo th" X ni{. Tbo, why such a mud r ation should have b <n » tow i h<m, >*h on»- if the mwleriea p-uii'irr to tho Na'ivo Offijr, only to no undristooil l«v a favoured fe>v us we'l inform <I m the mtricicius of the department as Mr HE .VI Campbell. The native"! refeml to, as Jox-rfbils by Mr Campbell, who have been givtn laud, and have leaded it to Europeans A ere net rebels, as Mr Can übc 11 would hate you leiieve, hut fnetd'y nunvei, member* in fact, of tho Key. William fiirton'a Hapu, and iveie, mthotib ex* caption, vf h n given tho laud, recognised as ■ac!' l and were residing within thy confi-cateil houudary. The posidoa of the laud too, ft entirely different, 'that given to Tak^rei, being the piok of the suburban )ao<), »ud the ochrr,} coun ry land on the oth«r side of tho Woipa md Wtiknto rivers. I freely admit that I da not know what service Takerei te Kau may have done the Native Mmitur, bnt can estimate at its true worth that done the public. 1 d<-ny the good undeit'andiug that Mr Campbell, and others of hit creed suppose to exist between the Kmgites and the European!, and, a. 1 >ng as tbo murderers of Tocid, Sullivan, and Packer are at large, am apt t • be aomewnot sceptio on the matter of Takcrui's iufljeaco with Tatrhao for good. I have a few words to fay about Waht-lapus, and I have done. I tbink it a pity that these warmed-np-bng-bears to progress and settlement, should be reconniied by Europeans, Mr Campbell mnnt know, that when a tapn is onco broken it ceases to exist. As a case in point, on the Ngaraawahia and A'exandra road, a few yard) from the piece in question, the native* took np all their an> cestor* bobes that happened t) be in the way, and made no difficulty whatever, when lh*yj knew it was inevitable, and I could pout en. plenty of places ..bjut here that have been VVabi Tapu'a, but have ceased to be such on the advent of the Pukeha. Why should an exception I c made in favour of this particu'ar case. It seems unfortunate, that (his disposition to revive obaolute tapu'a thoull receive so nmeh encouragemlut just cow. tho Taupiri oi<e, which, to my certain knowledge was broken 17 or 18 years ago by a friend of mine accidentally jetting fire to the fern, and in ght have rtm lined unthougat of fa ever, had it not a pn fi'atle stone quarry been ituod near it —1 am, &c, C. J. \V. B. Ngaruawahia, August 23, 1876.