FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15889, 9 April 1915, Page 9

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

■*» w f MAORIS' MURDEROUS PLOT. | \ NirrED IN THE BUD. Tram the Herald of April 10, 1865.) We have waited until inquiry could bo made into the late threatened attack on the European inhabitant* of Coromaadel, and are now able to place before our readers the real state of the case. The rumour (we do not sp«ak of the cock and bull story ..f 60 odd persona having being nii-vaered) was to the effect that on Frid.iv last the natives were to have come over from Kennedy's Hay to Kapanga for th« pretended purjwsc of soiling liorse.i, ami thus having introduced themselves in considerable numbers into the settlement, t-- have commenced the work of buUiicvv.' 'lh.'ie is no doubt whatever but that this I lan "as fully arranged and would have km ...iried out but for the timelv warn-' in; of certain native? and the prompt acta. taken by the Provincial Government ami the naval au'.hoii'ies. The quiearan.e •! the Eol.pse at Commaaidel on Thursday last struck a final blow to the r l "' - • • • To the '■evelation of two iremlly disposed natives we owe the discvneiy of this bb.iod thirsty plot, in which, in all probability, the lives of wine si-ores oi rhiropeans. men, women, and children, would have been sacrificed. Even now, the mm. 19 only in number, who were known to have devised this plot, and n1,.. within 24 hours, had intended to carry it out. were met by an officer of the government and the captain of a manPi war. and admonished of the evil of their ways, and ultimately told to depart, which they did. Was not this a monstrous crime in it.olf—l9 murderers nil,.wed to escape when within, as we must suppose, the reach of the law?