TAMAKI.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 6, 12 July 1845, Page 3

TAMAKI.

To the Editor of the New-Zealander. Sir, — The settlers in the Tamaki district have had the great advantage for sometime past, of a Church, iv which Divine Service is performed, in the mo*t proper and effective manner by toe Rev. Mr. Cotton, and the psalmody by the students of St. John's College led by him. But the sqlemnity of the service and the devotion of the "congregation, are now, every Sabbath, interrupted by the jiiois.e of pigs and dogs confined close, to a hov,el,*not many yards distant from the Church, and "on, the ground which was so generously given to tiie parishioners, by the Colonial Treasurer, Mr. Shepherd. -On inquiry, 1 have been informed, that this erection and its enclosures are occupied by a person {carrying on the trade of a butcher to St. John's College, the temporal y buildings of which are -at. the head of the " Terewa," about half a mile distant, and the butcher has been allowed to locate .himself on this s,iot, as being convenieut to supply the college table ; jet, at the same time, sufficiently .distaut from the dwellings of ,the masteis and students as to be neither an annoyance, nor nuisance, from the uoise of watchful dogs and dying pigs; but J think some attention should be observed to the due solemnity and observance of the Sabbath day, ,aud care taken that there be neither interruption „nor distraction of the attention of the congregation, during the performance of divine service. Being but an humble parishioner in this county district, I am not aware with whom the power m>ts to remedy jhis evil ; therefore} I trespass on your columns, not doubting publicity of it, will call the at- ' tentiun of those who can and will immediately remove the" butcher Id some more appropriate spot than i, the confines of Tatuaki churchyard. I am Sir, \ours, &c. MOGTA.

To the Editor of the New Zealantler. « Sir,— Will you allow me through the medium of ,your J'lurnal, thus publicly to my ut^cr disgust, (in doiii£ which I believe J am declaring th« sentiments of all the respectable inhabitants of the town), Til the revolting system pursued by the Magistrates, of punishing the victims of intoxication by the barbarous torture of the stocks. This atrocious system has long since been exploded in England, as tending not only further to demoralize the ituii-' vidual on whom it is practised, but as being wholly' .repulsive to morality, and opposed to all deceucy.' I this day was again, (for the second or third, time - .within a short tune) a witness to the indecent and disgraceful exhibition of a female sitting in" the public streets in a position and under circumstances of the most nature. Can this be tolerated in the present day ? Is this an imported practice from the , Bay of Islands? Surely Sir, it cannot be true, as is. stated, that it is a practice approved, if not suggested and sduct.oued by Governor Fitzroy 1 ! A Civilized Being. July 10, 1845. [We perfectly coincide with our correspondent. The exhibition of females in the slocks is most disgnicetul to the authorities, and to conceive that such punishment works reformation, can only enter the imagination of pure despotism. £d.]