WHICH SHALL WE BELIEVE?

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3056, 13 May 1867, Page 6

WHICH SHALL WE BELIEVE?

To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cxom. Dear Mb. Editor, — In tbe name of all that is truthful and honest, just inform an intending family of settlers in the Thames district, which we are to look upon as the true state of affairs in the following statements : — New Zealand Herald, New Zbaland Herald, Mat 10. May 11. , « THE THAMES. « THE THAMES. " We hasten to oorrect " To th« Editor of the New the mischievous misre- Zealand Hibald. presentations made yes- "Sir,— We arewarned terday by our cotem- that the danger is most porary relative to the imminent to our lives state of the native mind and property, but more in the Thames district. especially to our proIt is not true that the perty. We were recomMaoris have given the mended to watch night settlers notice to leave, and day, which we have or that the latter are in done ever since. The any apprehension for warning came from both their safety. Iv the neutral and hostile name of all that right natives. The Waikato and just, let these rebels have left their attempts to keep the former residences, and native districts in a state by last acoounts were of chronic disturbance, congregated on the Waiand to destroy all con- kato. The neutrals tiden.ce in each other, in assert that the rebels the minds of native and intend an attack on European, cease. Is the Tauranga, and the wish father to the Europeans of the thought, when our co- Thames, some of them temporary says, that we have gone to Kawhia, have yet "to feel the but the major part true pinch of the times?" remain in the Waikato. " Mr. Mackays visit seems to have brought matters to a crisis instead of converting Te Hira, as he confidently expected. The arms sent down te the Thames the neutrals have agreed to accept, which is so far good. " L. A. MoCaskhiL."

Are we to believe the well-informed editor of the 10th, or the better informed settler of the 11th? — I am, &c, Intending Settmk.