MAORI GAZETTE.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 29, 20 December 1845, Page 3

MAORI GAZETTE.

In our previous numbers we have animadverted on tne trash generally inserted in this publication. It is but common justice to give circulation to any article in such periodical, of contrary character, and evincing some pretension to literary principles and sense. — In the last number of this Government circular among the natives, the third article is an exception to the previous general rule ; and we have much pleasure in laying before our readers what we conceive to be a faithful just

[Translation] >» The eighth month will soon arrive, the time when the locust takes wing, and the Tutu blossoms are withered; but when will a good state of things come round, when will the eyesoi' the evil ones be opened to the utter folly of their wa\s ? The words of the rebels are these,—lt was the white people who beguiled us, we were strangers to evil, and it was the deceit and ridicule of the white people, that caused us to rise. What Sirs? do you say it was the white people who beguiled you ! are you children then ? are those who have become grey-headed, without reflection ? Cannot those who are full tattooed distinguish between good and evil? Do you suppose they cannot push their falsehoods aside, —they will never be listened to. It is surely because you have nothing better to say that these words were scraped toother. If you really had been beguiled by the white people in the commencement, whyare you still so obstinate in the present time, and why do you still persist in following wickedness, — do not attempt to put upon the white people your own evil doings.. The desire for wickedness was all your own ; and also, your desire to rob and kill the Europeans. You were too indolent to work for anything, which might enable you to purchase goods for yourselves, which caused you to be so eager to take the property of the white people, you do not remember the advice of your ance tors, nameh, to deal kindly with the white people, but jou have cast away their advice, and you are pursuing the road of wickedness, and running on to destruction. If you do not turn aside, you will certainly go over the precipice, and your flesh and hones will be mangled, and broken on the points of the stones by the fall.