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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 179, 7 August 1888, Page 2

“ Mercutio, " a well-known writer, thus expresses himself i —lt is very depressing and melancholy to reflect upon the results the noble aboriginal race which have followed upon our vaunted civilisation. New Zea. land history during the last quarter of a can. tury, at all events, is full of mournful illustrations of the fact that the natives of those islands have every reason to curse the day when the white trader sot foot upon their shores. Rum and brandy have, in a vast number of cases, ruined their physical man, hood and obscured their (moral sense. The pakeha-Maori Lnd agent, with his shady methods and his hazy perceptions of right and wrong, has in many instances done his best to obliterate from the Maori mind all perception of honor and fair dealing. Look at that case which came before the Supreme Court recently, in which a Tauranga Euro, pean and a Maori were concerned. The evidenoe clearly showed that the native was urged into complicity in the criminal act by the agent, who ny specious arguments sue* coeded iu distorting the notions of right and wrong.