(Hawera Star.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1454, 27 October 1881, Page 3

(Hawera Star.)

An article in the Wellington Evening Tost, which, if not the direct mouthpiece of the Government, at any rate has the very beat information as to its intentions, has the following referring to the present position: — "This is the new phase of native affairs, and when the Government make a definite repressive movement it will not be at all of the same kind as that advocated by Mv Bryce, or under circumstances at all similar. The Constabulary will remove the fencing 1 as before. If the Maoris oppose, they will be ai rested. If they resist, sufficient furco will bo used to overpower them at all costs and hazards, and To Whiti, having 1 distinctly incited the lawless pioceedings, will be held responsible, and will be treated accordingly, whatever this may involve. Having once sanctioned and incited law ness resistance to authoiity, he has at last placed himself outside the pale, and will have to take the consequences, which will probably be his personal imprisonment, and the final breaking up of the Paiihaka settlement, now that has become a nest of lebellion." That is the policy which this coast expects ; and if we are given an earnest that it will be piosecuted, M ijor Atkinson need have no fear for his election, tfufc bo Avill bo judged btriotly by that standard.