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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6830, 8 October 1883, Page 5

It will be seen from a telegram published elsewhere that the Kawhia affair as not likely to prove in any way serious. The Native Minister had an interview with Tawhiao, who took-the responsibility of having destroyed the beacons, and . made a very lame excuse. The beacons were then le-ereoted without any opposition.

Judging by what Tawhiao said, and by the fact that, he dined with the Native . 'Minister on board of the Hinemoa, he is not likely to give any further trouble so far as the buoys or beacons are concerned. But the post of Armed Constabulary will be maintained there, and this will no doubt contribute to the opening of the country. It is too much to expect that the native difficulty, which has been so much trouble to New Zealand ever since it was a colony, can be got rid of all at • once. Each trouble must be dealt with as judiciously as possible aa it arises. The course applied to Parihaka was the only one which the case admitted of, the cause of the evil having been allowed to accumulate for years. In this case, Mr. Bryce could act promptly, and has done so, with the result that we shall have no further trouble withKawhia, at all events for some considerable time to come.