THE FORONTIER SETTLEMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 814, 4 September 1877, Page 3

THE FORONTIER SETTLEMENTS.

1 Sib,— l see in you issue of Saturday last, a : letter concerning the Mao»i- depredations in whioh the writer has the impudence to state most deliberate falshooris, under; oqver of the name 'Pro TJonp Publico. 1 He hoi done woll by biding his mean cowardice, and not giving .. his name, as it mieht cause recrimination: In the last three, oases we have had before the Court here, tbere was no question of drunkenness, and 1 need not say that the murder of More an had nothing to do with drink. When the settlers are trying to e p t protection from possible and and very probable assaults by Maoris, it it is hard to have a Philo- Maori blaming the Publicans for what is very likely j caused by the writer of that letter or others of the same 'stamp. It is a deliberate untruth to say that drnnken Hauhaus are lying or rolling about the streets of Alexandra, and annoying the neighbours ; but- there- is -a den of infamy" in this township, which has no connection whatever with any public-house here. And the Maoris who use this den for gambling and worse purposes must be the one sour ' Pro Bmo PubJico' friend speaks of as annoying the nei.-hbors. If your correspondent; has the slightest sense of o'ecency he will publish his name, and substantiate his allegations.— l am, &c, T Finch , Alexandra Hotel, September 3.