NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2603, 21 November 1865, Page 4

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

'I 1 1 We were infoimed, by a gentleman in town yesterday, that he had received letters of a, friendly cha- ' racter from influential .Ngatimaniopoto chiefs- — Patera, the brother-in-law of Matutaera the King, and Tamati Ngapora, brother of the first King, Te . Whero Wheio. These chiefd express a very decided opinion that the murderers (and persona abetting them) of the late Eev. C. S. Volkner ought to be punished with unmistakable severity. Both Patera and Tamati Ngapora appear to bo greatly surprised at the ftee p»rdon of the two natives con* victed of the murder of the late Mr. Job Hamlin. They fully expected that they -\yould have been hanged, and all the natives were prepared to acquiesce in the justice of their condemnation aud execution. They cannot understand this act of lenity ; and in .this they aie not singular, we may remark, for all the Europeans with whom we have conversed on the subject are in precisely the same condition : they cannot understand it. A lready we have news from ' Poverty B.iy indicating the bad effects of this mis- ' timed and highly culpable exercise of the royal prerogative of mercy ; and no doubt it will have a very ' injurious tendency throughout tho entire native districts. Our informant states that Tamnti Ngapora intends to come and live at Kopua, near Mr. tfeid's station on the Waipa, '' as soon as L-Ut ami's potatoes are ripe." The natives have enough food to maintain them until then. <