Hawke's Bay Herald. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1879. A STRONG HAND WANTED.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5399, 4 June 1879, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Herald. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1879. A STRONG HAND WANTED.

From north and south, east and west, now comes the cry for a firm and unmistakeable attitude on the part of the. Government towards the turbulent King natives. It cannot be disguised that the meeting between Sir George Grey and Tawhiao, which was heralded, with such glorious promises, has been a failure — that is, it has utterly failed in forwarding a pacific policy with the King. Whether that failure is to be regretted is another matter. "We think not. As long as the^wily King maintained an attitude of assumed friendliness to the Etiropeans we were bound iv pursuance of the " flour and sugar" policy, to meet him as one having authority, and to treat with him. as we should treat with a friendly though foreign Power. To have attempted force while Tawhiao professed friendship would have been to call down on ourselves the strong condemnation of the humanitarians of the world, and, besides, we might have added immensely to the power of our antagonist by driving to his standard natives who would otherwise have remained friendly to us. Now that Tawhiao has dropped his mask of friendship, and appeared in his true colors as an ignorant, arrogant, and insulting savage, our hands are no longer tied, and we are free to force him to do that which he has refused to be persuaded to do.> Forbearance in the past has by Tawhiao been construed as feat*, and he v evi-^ dently calculates on this assumed fear to gain for him whatever he might demand. It is for us now to convince him, by prompt action and an attitude of unflinching firmness, that he is mis-

taken. To dally longer will be to confirm him in his error, and to. strengthen his hands. He has forfeited any claim to consideration he might once have possessed, and has left us free to use force to compel him to accede to our wishes. Settlement must progress at . all hazards. While the Maori' King is allowed to do as . his .own sweet will dictates, while he is treated as an independent monarch, and while his subjects are allowed to go unpunished for the most grave breaches of the law, settlement cannot progress. If the Government present a firm front, concentrate forces on the confiscated land, and erect proper forts at convenient distances, they will most effectually show to the turbulent natives that in relying on the power of their so-called King they are leaning on a broken reed, and Europeans will, when assured of the protection of the Government, not hesitate to purchase and settle on the disputed territory. The giant has bowed to the pigmy, and in his conscious strength has offered to yield to the pigmy that which the dwarf could not exact by might. The pigmy has refused these overtures, and laughed the giant to scorn. He stands in the giant's path. He must be made to yield. In his eyes might is the only right j we must show him that we have, that right. He must no longer appear' to the world as the bugbear of New Zealand, who can do as he listeth, regardless of the law and of the Queen's, authority. Once depose him and tb.B "prophet" Te Whiti from the high stations they have assumed, and there will be an end to the " native difficulty." Every day they are allowed to posture , as masters of the situation, as veritable lords of the North Island, adds to their strength by intensifying the faith of their ignorant followers in their boasted power. The '< peace at any price" policy has been tried long enough ; it is time for the " Jingo " policy to have" an

innings. , " We don't want to fight, But, by jingo, if we do, ' We've got the men, we've got ;fche ; ships,

We've got the money too," sang the followers of Earl Beaconsfield a few months ago, and when it wa'a once seen that the English nation was prepared, if need be, to maintain its demands by force of arms, negotiations received a wonderful filip, and foreign diplomats no longer turned a deaf ear to the roar of the British lion. John Bull showed his teeth, and it was seen that his biting-power was not lost. So must we show the Maoris that at last our forbearance has been exhausted. " The best way to maintain peace is. to be prepared for war," is one of those aphorisms old as the hills, but tho truth of which becomes more manifest with each succeeding age. We have seen how our leniency, and our evident desire to maintain peace, have been misunderstoocl — we have seen each concession in our past rewarded with further aggression by the natives. It is at last evident that nothing is to be gained by Itom-towing and humbling ourselves at the feet of the savage. It is now foi- us to show that we are prepared to take as a right that which we before prayed for as a favor. Even if we meet with resistance at first we must maintain our demands, but those best qualified to judge see inoro danger in our lethargy than in any decided action we may take. Longer dalliance is more likely to result in scenes of violence and bloodshed than would be such action on our part as should convince the Maori puppet that we liave the power to.

compel him to. yield to our wishes, /No half : policy will now serve. The stroke dealt to Tawhiao must be 4\ decisive one, so .that) - \ When he falls, he falls like Lucifer — Never to hope again. ,/' ..[Since the above was written our telegrams inform us that the Government have at last recognised the gravity of the situation, and that prompt measures are to be, taken to put' the threatened districts into a , thorough state of defence. The news is. of serious import, coming, as it does, upon the heels of the visit of Sir, George Grey and Colonel Whitmore \ to Taranaki, and shows that they look upon decisive action a$ our only Hope. If Te Whiti is allowed to continue to work on the minds of the superstitious and credulous natives, a word of his may, at any time, precipitate war. Our only hope of avoiding that war is to show ourselves prepared for every emergency.

The first of a series of" winter gatherings '■' took place last evening in the new schoolroom of St. John's Cnurbh; and proved a brilliant sue'eeasi tke attendance being so large that ' commodious as the schoolroom is it Was crowded to excess. The Bishop of Waiapu presided. The entertainment commenced with a pianoforte solo, excellently executed by Mrs de Lisle, the same lady also playing a pianoforte selection at the opening of the second part ; a' selection was also effectively played by Miss Holt at the conclusion of the first part.' Songs were ..very well rendered by Miss ; Raven, Miss Hitchirigs, Mrs Neill,: Messrs Rosei Foster, and Whitty,;'and although it Was announced that encores' were prohibited, the audience were so clamerous for repetitions that' it was' found " expedient to.- comply With their demands. Mr Levi and Mr Cornford! gave readings) the one by. the. latter,; "News.. from Modden," was especially! good, . and the applause it elicited evi-j denced that it was well appreciated. The amount obtained by the entertain- 1 ment was £15 10s. ' - : ' '''■"■'

" We are requested to remind holders oi publican's licenses under temporary* transfer, to whom permanent transfers-, were granted at yesterclay^s Licensing' Court, that it -is incumbent upon them .to take their licenses forthwith to the Clerk, of the Court, for the . purpose of getting the -. memorandum of transfer endorsed and ."signed by the: Chairman of the Court ; and that they must also pay the feo in Law Court stamps. The fee on the grant of a certificate of transfer is three; shillings. . • ■

The list of 2ases for trial at the sittings of the Supreme Court, Gouimenoing' next ' Wednesday, is heavier, than on.any.prenious occasion. There are 15 cases and 19 persons to b 3 tried. The following is ; the list : — Vernon Campbell, forgery and uttering ; Joseph Hutchinson, larceny from a dwelling ; Robert Vinsen, larceny ; Yokhain Skott, sheep stealing ; George Prior Donnelly and Joseph Price, conspiracy ; "William. Bishop and Henry Lowe, burglary; John Whelan, arson; John Russell and Richard Winter, burglary; Waha' Takatak, horse stealing; James Le Bas, house-breaking; Nowhowhare, horse stealing; Richard Boylan, breach of Arms Act; Roderick H. M'Lennah, murder.

A general meeting of the Taradale Ploughing Match Society, was held on Monday evening at the . Greemneadows Hotel, Taradale. Mr Thomas Jeffares was voted to the chair. The balancesheet of the society, was laid on the table. It showed a balance of £23 Os 9d. The miscellaneous expenses were £13 14s, the amount given in prizes amounted; to £39. The balance, Mr John Heslop said, " was a good nest egg io commence operations this year." The old committee beg .to thank- in; an . especial manner Messrs H. Williams, Tuxford, and Ruddock and Fryer, for the way in which they came forward in the hour of need, by giving some very valuable prizes in the shape of plough, chaff cutters, churns, and other useful articles. , The following gentlemen were elected to form the new committee : — Messrs John Heslop, Thos. Jeffares, sen., S. Graham, W. Robertson, Peter Eobertson, Peter Ramsay, William Heslop, and George Rymer. Mr Arthur M'Oartney -was- again elected secretary to the society.

The Rev. Charles Penney will preach at tho Norsewood sohool-room at 7 this evening, and at Woodville school-room on Sunday next at 11a.m., and in the. settlement at 2.30 p.m.

A man named F. Symons was arrested at Hawera on Monday charged with obtaining money on false pretences, from Mr B. B. Johnson of Waipawa. Symons pretended that he had two horses at Kaikora and so obtained £14 from Mr Johnson. Subsequently the latter discovered that Symons had no horses at Kaikora, and gave information to the police. When Symons was before the R.M. at New Plymouth yesterday he admitted having received the money from Mr Johnson, but denied the false pretences. Ho was remanded to Napier, to appear on the 14th instant, but was allowed bail, himself in £50 and two sureties in j£2s each.

The newly appointed drill instructor, Sergeant Nelson, of the Marine Artillery, lately from Canterbury and now attached to the Napier Volunteers, has been inducted to his oflice, and will parade with the 'Volunteers' on Friday next, at 7.15 p.m!, as per advertisement. ..

A letter was posted at Balolutha on the 27th of March, to the address of a well-known firm in Dunedin. According to the stamps on the envelope it would seem that it arrived in IJuriedinon the 28th of March, and then appeared at Auckland on' the 7th of May. Thence it was sent to Wellington, via intermediate offices/ which" place it reached on the 13th of May, and finally arrived at Dunediu on the 16th of May — having thus occupied more than seven weeks in transit. . , „ ..'-.'■

Mr Finney, a London dentist, claims to have found a filled tooth in the jaw of an Egyptian mummy. Dentistry was further advanced 4000 years ago in Egypt than is supposed. '■..,■,,.' In 1867 there were eighteen Tasmanian vessels, employed in.; whaling, ..which, brought in. oil of the value of nearly £50,000 ; last year there were only, eleven vessels employed, and they - 1 only! succeeded in bringing into port oil of the value' of £16,920. : • •

A report comes from tho Sierra Nevada Mountains of the discovery of the timbers of, a stranded vessel, resembling those of a Chinese junk, high up in the mountains between Mineral King and the head waters of King's River. The sound portion of the timber resembles camphor wood, and, it is said, still retains a faint smell. The fastenings are of copper ; the rigging &c, is, of course, all gone. A number of bones, supposed to be human, were also found in the vicinity, and upon the adjacent slopes there is abundant evidence of the previous ' occupation . of the water in the shape of shells, as we'll as the occasional finding" of petrified fish. That this valley has at ono time boon an inland sea is admitted by geologists, but that these waters were navigated by Celestial seamen one or two thousand years ago, has never been claimed even by the, Chinese themselves. But these same people do claim to have been the original discoverers of this country, and this find seems to give color to the claim. It has also been claimed by them that vessels of theirs havo beon wrockod on this coast, and that portions of the crews have returned, to China. , „,,.. -:

On the prevalent <Jf fire a correspond }'by'-' s two..'young damsels from, the pah dent writes ttf a Northern contemporary !:■■ :]ap[pye., who, nowise abashed by the pre--r-Therd, appeared a paragraph ;in?y our ' I selpe^l a stranger, entered readily into issue of a few days ago, with reference tp ; fbonye'rsation about different things. We hard times coming at the same: time a f 8 icEafled} laughed, and flotaidered about there appeared Bpots^n the sun^^ one another tulloiig after riot this have something to.ido with the £<larlc^ and they freely oonfesspcl-thafc' I causing of fires ? It "is not well to\ifcake a ,.. r^a&the jolliest night companion of the; narrow view of this question;- and"' apcusa;. *Ibafch>they had ever met with.{^V^;^. ■■■'-'■? people of being more wicked in 'hard "" k ; -^ „ » .■. v j«'Sw«»«^):i--thaS in prosperous times. Why, should +Ti A^ ed be ? a + S UK ?ShIL? not the sun have the effect ofWaking m r£l nr g +h?l' ! timber combustible, at. least in " those Jood of Rothenburg. Two or three houses that are well insured, and the oc- trees-oaks f or th e: mfi^ part-' oupantsW not got a credit balance at , and "extending -over &n area of : about An AugtraKan paper records the dis-1 thirty milsa. The .trees are large, and appearance and supposed drowning in; the wood, which is in an excellent state the Murrumbidgee of a mining character, : of preservation, although quite^. black, well-knoWn on New Zealand, Victorian, 1 is well? adapted for the purposes of ornaand New South Wales Goldfields,; byltKe j mentation. . . name of "Tip" M'Grath, miner, chirb- . m, A .•ar n i MMM «/ j jt, u a^ podist, student and practiser of herbilism,! r^hJ *%*" Btand f^ aß:^ n local preacher, a Rechabite lecturer **Z^ \™£ a CO Py . f of ,^ c acc ° unt intemperance, and, alas! poor fellow, a; ft °{ 5 n 6 do^ U ra^ I<s - skin , s . . s , oldin steady devotee of the bottle. He was a! o\Ft i^Sf re f , ahsed , wa? volunteer, in New . Zealand during thei abo^t IM. each, or Is 9d per dozen, from New Zealand Government, for which he is believed to have refused £150

• As people who have visited the theatre '- take out of their memories, for a- day or so, some of the things that amused them, and laugh again, so young ladies linger lovingly over the details of a weddifig, says; the 'Saturday* *JR4viet6:\ It is acurious experience, life iii a house* full 1 of ; girls who have just left a marriage party, j Their xniiids are full of th.es great theme ; \ they tenderly record each incident ; they i can think of nothing else ; and they tell j each other a thousand times how the; bride looked, and how she dropped her bouquet, and who pioked it .up again, and how her travelling dress became, her. Not otherwise than when, a covey being dispersed, men go round and shoot the straggling birds, so admirers - might easily win ,the hearts of the fair; who aro ..still' hovering wistfully rounclthe memory of a wiedcling. . Thus nature has. provided chances for bridesmaids ; and thus the superstition that it. is- unluokycfco bafo'f ten a bridesmaid is! justified. U For if a lady can survive heartwhole, and pass unscathed through these moments of sympathy, it is certain that Bbc never will be won. ' ■ ' '

..-iiKe Globe, under" the ; headihgvbf f Fatal Saturdays,'' publishes the following rather' remarkable paragraph^— The death/ of the lamented-' Princess of Hesse 6ri ! the' same day of the month. ' and week as that of the Prince Consort attracted general attention, but it may not have been so universally observed that Saturday has been a fatal day to the Royal Family of England for' the last 167 years : —William 111. died Saturday, March 18, •1702 ; Queeii Anne' died Saturday, August 1, 1714; George I. died.' Saturday, -June 10, 1727; George II: : died Saturday, October 25, 1760; George 111. died Saturday, January 29, 1820 ; ' George^lV. died Saturday, June 26, 1830; the Duchess of Kent died Saturday, . ; March 16, 1861 ; Prince Consort died Saturday, December 14, 1861 ; Princess Alice died Saturday, December 14, ,1878. -

» The London : Gazette .announces that the Queen has been pleased ;to > confer the decoration of the Victoria Gross on Captain John Cook, of the' Bengal Staff Corps, for .a signal act of valour at the action of the Peiwar Kotal, on -December 2nd, 1878, in haying during, a heavy fire, charged out of the entrenchments with such impetuosity that the, enemy ; broke and fled, when perceiving; at the close of the melee 3 -. the danger of Major ,Gtalbraith, Assistant Adjutant - General Kuraim Column Field Force, 1 who was in personal conflict with an Afghan soldier, Captain Cook attracted his attention to himself, arid, ' aiming a sword cut which the Durance avoided,, sprang s upon, him 5 and, grasping his throat, grappled with Him. They both fell .to the ground. The Durance, a most powerful man, still endeavored' to use his i-ifle, seized ' Captain Cook's arm in his teeth, until the struggle was ended by, the man. being shot thrbugh the head. ■■■•••

Land and Water gives the following instance, of remarkable intelligence in a horse: — A gentlemen living in Surrey had a very, fine horse stolen, about six months ago, and tried in vairi to trap© him. As he was passing Blackfriars Bridge the week before last, a horse neighed very loudly ; Mr. : recognised the sound, and looking round saw five horses tied up, close, to the entrance to the bridge;' One of them again neighed; it was surely his lost favorite nag, and the animal . showed that 'he knew his L former owner ; but in ohanging-haridshe ! had also changed oolor. He had been ; oleverly dyed or painted a dark brown; when stolen from the stable hervrasa bay. The new color was soon washed off, and . jyj r „„__. recovored his property, but 'failed to trace the thief, who,, Had sold ; him at a fair in Hants, , to the , man in : whose" possession hia master found him. : The horse had always been in the habit : of neighing when his master entered the stable, and had .'evidently seen him as he was about : to : cr6ss the ' bridge, and i hailed him. .• ...

; A forthcoming trial for money lent, ; amounting ito between seven and i eighty thousand pounds, in. which a. -lady; .weli ■ known in .yarious .ciroles. of ; society it { defendant, promises to be a most senaajtional affair, (says, the. World).' Subpoenas \ have:- been served upon Mr Gladstone] 'the ' Duke of Sutherland, Chief . Baron 1 : Pollock, ;' 'Mr Cunliffe Brookes', -Lord 1 Campbell, and Mr Burcbam, • '^ '

Sir W,iUiam, Harcourt ventured ,upqni» Scriptural . comparison in : the , House of Commons a , few weeks ago. According to that gossipy journal^ the World, hie 1 made a terrible mess of it, hopelessly mixing up David atid Ahab, Nathan/ and Naboth.' ,But he, was not alone in his haziness on the subject. The' -Standard, reporting the speech, gave the' passage thus: — "If I might borrow. Soriptural language, I ahould say that the High Commissioner Nathan, having been sent to get back the ewe lamb taken away by David, ."goes and. delivers on "ultimatum to Nabob" Nabob is: not bad; and has: quite an appropriate Eastern flaror about' it.<' But another reporter, coming in later when the Chancellor of the Exchequer alluded to the matter, thus dealt with it in the ; same report :— " The hon. member for Oxford said something ■ about Nathan or Ahab, I could not exactly catch which, and lie seemed' to think" that sending an ultimatum to Cetewayo was like Ahab sending an ultimatum to Nab^oth desiring him to give up his own land." ' j ;

AJMra. Absolom.Countaway, of Terrace Bay^ Nova Scotia, astonished the natives by giving birth, to four children some time > ago. The operation has now been repeated, Mrs Countaway having given birth to another four recently. Since her marriage in 1865, Mrs Countaway has giveu birth to seventeen children in the following order :-rlst, one; 2ndV twins; 3rd, twins; 4th, twin.3; sth, twins ; 6th, four ; 7th, four. ' '•>.. ; The question whether the moderate use of alcoholic drink is or is not injurious was. debated at some length in the Deniliquin Mutual Improvement Society r;eceittly, and, singular ' enough, ; the Mayor,' who is a wholesale dealer in spirits, argued, with others, that alcoholic stimulants were, even, in moderation, injurious.

The following choice morsel is clipped from " Notes of atrip to the Hot Lakes District," written by Mi- J. T. Large for the Wairoa Free Press : — " After having partaken of a meal of boiled vegetables, Ii went down to a famous "waiariki" to have a bath, I had not beent ( long immersed, in my bath before J waa joined