NEW PLYMOUTH.
We regret to have received reports of the Mokan natives having behaved very badly to the shipwrecked mariners of the Harry, They have hitherto had the character of being hospitable to travellers, though light fingered. It would be well for the aggrieved men to forward a written complaint, to the Government at Auckland, who wpuld at least administer &' lecture to the natives on the universal custom of affording aid and ■helter to persons cast ashore j and a copy might
with advantage be forwarded to the Resident Missionary, whose influence and good services are always at command if needed.
It is not improbable that the recent sentence of two of the Mokau natives to six, months imprisonment, with hard labour, may have influenced their treatment of the crew of the Hany, though it cannot justify it. We are aware that they considered the sentence disproportioned to the offence committed, but it was concurred in by tbe native Assessor Poharama, in whose judgment and discretion full confidence m:iv be placed, we assume it was well deserved.
In any e;v>e it will be well tbe nn.tives should be warned, if only as a precaution against possible mischance for the future.— Taranaki Herald.
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Colonist, Issue 9, 20 November 1857, Page 3
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202NEW PLYMOUTH. Colonist, Issue 9, 20 November 1857, Page 3
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