ANOTHER SLANDER ON AUCKLAND MEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 197, 30 June 1864, Page 6

ANOTHER SLANDER ON AUCKLAND MEN.

To the Editor of the New Zealand HfM.u.u. . BinCo "*««» to receive roviW i" K , Ul) '; o ' t "' K -' l which svh.iu»ii : Jv tliis ™.)„i„ Il j; > '! 10 .''""H" U'O tohi.y a.MI "1.4,. . A™ S^. 1 T'™'? 1 Sf'?' paragraph winch tho'l ?r 0, ° f " llow "'g "'tyed, of the disposal JfVi *r article on the board the hull: " Mao ' l P n «oneiH, now on on tlio other hand to t tr l:' 11 the Supreme Justice, after their m ~efor° the Chief custody f or months " nd kc 'P t in have been a daneormiJ « • e v, ' i,rn " I '. would douhtkHs hav l,ccT, PCn T f;llt - An »«empt prisoners, to have the c!w tri" 1 } n" Ijehalf of «"» ground that, in the the the.w "S on the ' ? mind in tlie I'rovince „( A '1-i ! I,er ot> U '° V| * consideration of the casp* ;i dl'.spns- «% be expected." CJbe could not Citizens of AucM->nH t 1 Wg PHsonerg a btsa J s^ duct a,ld V ' a '- ' uch a »to tvarrunt

such an imputation on your fftness to form ft jury for the trial of these prisoners ? In the heat of the war when the news of one murder after another kept yon in a state of mental horror and indignation, and when the streets wore daily thronged with Maoris shipping flour, &c.., for the rebels beyond Wairon, and when you had every reason to believe and know that theso men wore .so engaged in aiding the vein-Is, and in acting as spies on our motions in town—was there even then one single exhibition of ill-blond shown towards these Maoris '■ Wore they insulted, annoyed or upbraided by word or look ? No! Tinpeople of Auckland behaved wilh a moderation and manly temperance which in itself is a refutation o! nino-tcnths of the malicious slanders that the journal from wlu'eh the above * \cr:i*:t wils taken. Ims hurled against U-c-m. How long will (lie .Ye ft' I'rnhinihr abuse our pa-

tience Daily we tilid in it the most, personal, paltry abuse of the people's representatives, and now the whole of the citizens of Auckland are charged with being men who are not to be entrusted to sit as jurymen on (In- tri..l of the Maori rebels. Is it -Jo go forth to the world Unit the people of Auckland sit down quietly under such an accusation r I am, sir, A I'ktit Jv.uv.van. Auckland, June 29.