HAWKE'S BAY HERALD SATURDAY, OCTOBEE 81, 1863.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 7, Issue 433, 31 October 1863, Page 2

HAWKE'S BAY HERALD SATURDAY, OCTOBEE 81, 1863.

It is passing strange, after all that has takeu place in the colony within the past few months, that such a thing as a Maori sympathiser should remain in existence. Yet so it is. The amiable bands who take every opportunity of murdering women and children still stand high in favor with such men as Mr. FitzG-erald — who, by the way, we shouldn't wonder, will this session renew his motion of last year for admitting the native nobility—the king included, we presume — to the sacred precincts of the Legislative Council, and to a voice in the deliberations of the august body which constitutes the Upper House. The Press, of which Mr. FitzGerald is proprietor, recently characterised the language of the Auckland editors as "currish in the extreme," because, forsooth, they called a murder a murder, and were not gentle enough in the terms they used towards those misguided natives who lie in . ambush for the purpose of cutting off un- '< armed men, and of tomahawking women and children. The saying attributed to an eminent dignitary of the church, that New Zealand was colonised for the benefit of the native race, would appear to be the belief of some, even to this day ; at least, they act as if they so thought. Aud we are sorry to say that this feeling is not confined to the Martins, the Swainsons, the Stokes's, aud the FitzGeralds of the day ,• but is apparently shared in by a higher personage — His Excellency the Governor. The tenor of his despatch to the Duke of Newcastle, upou the subject of the abandonment of the Waitara, to be found elsewhere, reads very much like a special pleader for poor William King ; but we are glad to find that the Duke has not been misled by such twaddle, but has, in several instances, put His Excellency right, by reminding him of circumstances he had seemingly lost sight of. Another despatch, written by the Governor, has ibeen lately; commented upou by the Southern Cross, as containing injurious refleetiousmpon the European settlers, in reference to their treatment of the native population ; and there can be little doubt that much of the misapprehension which prevails in Englsiud as to the real character of the New Zealand colonist is due to the contents of Sir George Grey's despatches. We trust that His Excellency has, ere now, had reason to think aud to write in a different spirit.