The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, The Morning New and The Echo. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1879.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2926, 30 August 1879, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, The Morning New and The Echo.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1879.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong thfl needs resistance, For the future in the distance,

And the good that we can do.

The outrage committed by a small tribe at Ohinemuri upon a survey party, reported in another column, is one of those occurrences which are almost unavoidable in a country where a civilised race comes in direct contact with an irresponsible barbarous people. In the United States Indian outrages of greater or less serious magnitude are of almost constant occurrence in frontier districts. The American papers by the last mail contain accounts of several such tragedies, in one of which a family of nine were massacred. Our comparative immunity from offences so serious may, we think, be attributed to a more just and conciliatory treatment of the Native race. Feelings of general relief were experienced in town today when it was found that the lirst rumours relative to the firing at the survey party had been very greatly exaggerated, and that no lives were lost. The information given by Mr Cashel, of Ohinemuri, in another column, explains the matter very lucidly. The block concerning which the dispute has arisen is claimed by two parties of natives, both of whom have applied to the Court. The tribe for which Mr Cashel's party surveyed is described as small and uuh iluential, but a thoroughly bad and intractable lot. They fired over the heads of surveyors before, and probably only meant to repeat the experiment in order to stop the survey. If they had desired to murder the whole party there was nothing to prevent them, as the surveyors were completely at their mercy. However, the offenders must be very lirmly dealt with. To pass over such outrages offers a premium for their repetition. We have no doubt that the Native Minister, who has left promptly for the scene, will take such measures as the occasion deruanda.