THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam” [Established November 16, 1861.] DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, OCT. 27. 1888.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23333, 27 October 1937, Page 3

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam” [Established November 16, 1861.] DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, OCT. 27. 1888.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO

Every telegram lately received from the North tells that the Native Difficulty is still likely to be the bane of the Colony. It is not that danger appears imminent,' ■ for, although from a variety of different districts rumors of war come, and from some intelligence of actual hostilities, the Natives do not gather together in such numbers as to prevent their being very easily dealt with. Were the question asked what the Maoris are battling for, it would be very difficult to supply an answer. Those lately dispersed at Hawke's Bay appear to have had no definite object in view. They are described as being Hau-haus, a term apparently given to all who are in arms against the Colonists. From time to time the Middle Island is told that modifications have been wrought in their savage faith, that, one after another, bloodthirsty prophets with unpronounceable names have fallen, and that their pernicious superstition has, with their deaths, suffered a severe blow and great discouragement; that their faith in Hau-hauism is fading away, and that peace and quietness may be anticipated in future. Yet the Hau-haus are nbt extinct. On the Ea3t Coast and on the West, they spring up like armed men out of the earth. Where they are foolhardy enough to attack the settlers, they received merited chastisement, as at Hawke's Bay. Where they build themselves whares, and try their uninstructed hands at intrenching themselves behind bullet-proof walls, the Colonial Forces, under the auspices of the Native Department, hunt them out; attack, slay, and expel them, and fire their dwellings. Now this may be necessary; but as the Middle Island has to bear the burden of the expense, its inhabitants have a clear right to be informed on what' ground it is incurred. ...

As an instance of the increased attention given to horticulture, we are informed that yesterday morning Mr Charles Hunter, of East Harbor, had new peas in the Dunedin Market. This is a month earlier than in any previous year.

"Prompt action," says the "Wellington Advertiser, has been taken by the Government with regard to the prisoners taken at the late fight at Hawke's Bay, and we commend them for it. The steamer St. Kilda will be despatched to-day, in charge of Capt. Johnson, for Napier, where she will take these prisoners on board, and then proceed to the Chatham Islands. A guard of twenty-five Europeans, specially enrolled for the service, will accompany them, and will remain at the Chathams in charge. There are sixty prisoners to be transported, who, added to the number already at Waitangi, will make nearly two hundred: and it is necessary for the safety of the white settlers there that the guard should be strengthened. For those in New Zealand it is a matter of the greatest congratulation that the country should be quit of these fanatics; and we trust that the Government will still pursue the same decided course, and expatriate every man. or woman professing Hau-hauism, who has been or may be in future taken in rebellion, or showing the slightest approach to disaffection." (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (from our own correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The Beautiful Star reports seeing a four hundred ton barque at Farewell Spit last night. She was a perfect wreck. No persons were visible. . . .