MAORI SPIES. To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1928, 21 September 1863, Page 4

MAORI SPIES. To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross.

Sir, — nennit me tlnough the medium of your paper, to state a well known fnefc. tlmt no detachment of VnJiinteeia, and no body of Militia, leave the city, no munitions war oviv barracks, no ooumussat'm.6 stoics oar waiehouses, no vessel our pmtt, without its being made known to the enemy, within a few horns by supposed friendly natives, so that if they have any desiro or capacity for lying in ambush to intercept these supplies, or cut off our escoita, or situll bodies of troops, they have every facility affoided them. ' And what is true of the city, is aWo true of the camp i no detachment of soldiers leaves it for an attack, or for a change of positions, but the friendly natives »an immediately to tho "SViiikatos, to communicate the intelligence. Hence ambushei are laid to cut off all small pai ties of our men, hence the lives of poor Capt. Swift, Butler, Armitasje, and other*, have all been sacrificed to the accursed policy of allowing friendly natives to hunt about our camp and our city. It is tally lamentable to reflect, that wliilM; every intelligent ciiizen deplores and condemns the fact, that such a deep infatuation has fallen upon the minds of our Hitlers and Genera.l -Yours, &c, Common Sense. Auckland, September 17th, 1863.