FRONTIER CORRESPONDENTS OF THE HERALD.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 674, 14 September 1876, Page 3

FRONTIER CO RRESPONDENTS OF THE HERALD.

SIR, —From time t-> time, I have parused in the "Weekly Har*ld " maoy extraordinary a >ns ttional bits of native news, which, I understand, tire manufactured in en) of our frontier settlements, with the assistance of one or two unprincipled half-castes. £coa the letter which stated that Nultu wai at Kiipiha during the late meeting, &). There are one or two features in these communications which are most marked, viz. : They persistently deny everything that appears in your journal on native inittera. They praise up 8 r Or. Grey, and abuse Sir Djnald MoLeto. I do not presume to know who your in'ormants are ou native matters. All I know is, that most of what appears ii your onlumus on this aubj iot is nearer the truth than what is published in ot'ier paper*. As t) your statement about the Maua^atautari Mill, 1 can confirm th it, so could many more gfotlemm in Waikato, especially about •Cambridge, if they think Jit. The natives about MitamaU have, for some time, talked of erec'iug a mill there, whioh, I hava no duuat, has bt«n commenced long ere this. Mr Firth assists them in this undertaking. These are f lots which prove the benefits the district has raoeived since the present Native Policy was initiated, notwithstanding all the insinuations and assertions to th* -contrary made by such person) M the writer of the paragraph to which I allude. 1 am a great believer in the old Latin say ing, (Pit ota radiant. I cannot siy I approve of those who cannot even travel to and fro from Auokland, without <paradiog th* book, as the Parsons call it. When I bear of suoh things, I am at once reminded of the Stiggins of Pickwick notoriety, and concur in the opinion of th* elder Mr Welter about him. As a Waftato settler of twelve years standing, I trust I sh Ul nos be deemed presump. tuous if I ask my fellow settlers to ramembtr the adage about the bird, and •that unity is strength.— l am, &c, Don't FORGIT THE WARMINO PAN.