PABIHAKA GLENCOE.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 13, 17 January 1881, Page 3

PABIHAKA GLENCOE.

,- ?— r j TO THE ICDITOB '6t THK "EJVBNING POBT. Sib— Had our foroes advanced on Parihtika and attempted to' arreßt Te Whiti,'it probable that some twentieth-oentory historian would have commented as follows: — " The question aa to the share of Mr. Bryde in the guilf; of this transaction has been discussed with no little warmth on both sidas. ' It has been urged, in vindication of the Ministecjs conduct, that the answer made by /Te Widti to the Governor was misunderstood.; that; he knew; TeWhiti's followers onlyas a rebellibus clan, who had rejeoted his oQnqjliatoi^offejrs ; that, in signing, the order for their extirpation, he certainly never intended, them to be murdered in their sleep, but merely that their organisation as a nidus of disaffection should bdbrokenup. The scene of the massacre is. visited annually' by tourists, jchp jarejacoommodated with oonveyanoes in conneofaori with the U. S. Company's steam vessels, from New Plymouth." The above quotation is taken, with some trifling alterations, *f torn Chambers' Enoyolopoadia', artiale/;'olenooe.' ' It seems td furnish an historical parallel that may, if soberly and discreetly studied,' Bhow the danger we are in of getting an unenviable notoriety. j The' 'ttdinman-sense . student of Icontemporary affairs is now asking one or two -fory plain questions :— (1) Are there not certain Maoris, at .large to whom reserves, have longbeen promised and, never V6t aott(a]lyFgiven ? (2) Does it matter[ a' button whether said Maoris' are' rude in speeoh and a -little! illadvised in conduct P 1 - We ourselves 'have done very harsh things. < (3) Can We not first allot reserves definitely, and 1 then; but not till then, proceed to out up and sell whatever is left in our own order and disposition PJ - If you can answer 1 this last 'question m a perfeotly bond /id«. L manner, you will op a great eervioe to your well- wisher, ' ''<¦'¦ Hermit.