To the Editor of the New Zealand Herald.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 276, 30 September 1864, Page 4

To the Editor of the New Zealand Herald.

Shi, —Gould some plan not be proposed how we can vindicati\ourselves from the slanderous epithets case oa us aKliome by the Jinglish press, unci in Parliament. \ 1 conceive 110 setter here likes to lay under such false imputations, an® hear the poor native alwavs cried up as the injured Wrty, and the settler as a rapacious graspiug nias(er-£-greedy alter land. Could not tt large public meetingjl)e held, and some resolutions passed setting forth iif as clear and concise a wav as possible the true na/urc of the war, and vindicating the colonists from being the cause. All friends ol the colony should also write to their relatives and Iriends at home, letting them know the cause, which I take to be a vaeeilating Governor aud not acting with justice to Maories and Europeans ali;ce. U e have treated the natives as spoilt children. end all who have ai ything to do with them know Uiey are not very easily ruled. Yours, &c., A Fhiexd to xiii: Colom. Kcwmarlicl, 27th Sept., ltttX. "

—A. conresjiondent itf a TJT r i h ° follo "' in g account- of the tedies ot tlio Fifth_ Avenue Hotel, Now York: — .rimy- were alUalkiug stocks. A parcel of young brokers Uve m the house, and. cver> evening tl.oy to the 'coal-holo' to exec,.to the commissions of ladies. I .did not «wk ariv of their hnsl bands what they thought of this- arrangement. • X lady took me m tow, and-we sailed down the draw-ing-room, looking nnd listening. to what,, wns.bemu done and said. ' Jenny,' said a very pretty woman to another, 'you'd bettrt" buy some Michigan Southern. It's go up to 1-10.', ' Now, Lizzy,' replied her friend,* 'it's no use for vou'to he htdlviii" fe.ie iimrk*ofr._ I dou't believe any such u thing.' '*01° yon norrid hear, you, retorted Lizzy ' you've been' selling short, you Know you have!' So we passed along, hearing conversation of this sort from women who licld stock-lists in their hands, and ea<*erlv inquired if their brokers had returned from the eoaland what they had done." If this be true what are we coming to ? Are wo about to turn into a nation of gamblers, and mako a second BadcnBaden of >ew ork ? If both men Und matrons indulge in this dangerous giimo of beggar-mv-nei"h-bour, the next generation will come honestlv enou-h by a wholesale mania for throwing dice, and will undoubtedly erect, statues to Fortune or to Secretary Chase instead of to tho heroes of the war.— Xeir J o>'fr~l*(tpcr m • - • • to-day had an amusing bit of nationality from the engineer. , On asking why it was that the chief engiuccr of almost all the fine stealuers afloat were Scotchmen, he answered—"\Veel, ye see, the Erisli are just quite oot o' (lie question; and as for the English, somehoo or itherit's no in them."