Hawke's Bay Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1869.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1027, 2 March 1869, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1869.

At the date of the departure of the Panama mail, the news of the Poverty Bay massacre had reached England j and, if we may judge from the temper ofthe article which appeared iv the Times ofthe Ist January, and which we reprint in this issue, the intelligence had been received without that burst of indignation which one would naturally suppose so horrible atrocity would immediately have elicited. The calamity is treated indeed rather as a good opportunity for reading a severe lecture to an afflicted colony, than as a subject for lamentation, much less as a case calling for sympathy or for assistance. We trust, however, that this is not the feeling of the English people. We cannot believe that a British colony, struggling almost for existence, will bo callously abandoned to its fate by the Mother country. Fortunately for the colony — fortunately, too, for the reputation of Great Britain among the other great Powers — there is a gentleman in Englaud who will do his best to place the question in its true aspect before the ministry of the day, aud who will be listened to, we are sure, by the statesmen now in power. Need we say that we allude to Sir George Grey. New Zealand, in him, has a fast and powerful friend. Quite possibly, indeed the detention ofthe 18th Regimeut, or at least the movement in that direction, may have been the result of his urgent remonstrances j whether or not, he will not, we feel assured, fail to impress upon Her Majesty's government what the true interests of the Empire, no less thau the great need of the Colony, demand at her hands in the present emergency.