CORRESPONDENCE

Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3469, 12 November 1879, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

To the Editor of the Thames Advertises. Sib,—What is the Government going to do with our would-be murderers Pis asked on all sides. Of conrse the present Government have the excnse that they had the difficulty on hand when they came into office. Granted. That is no reason why some steps should not at once be taken to bring the cnlprits to justice. If this is not done soon then the demands of all the other natives who may have or consider they have ■ a grievance had better be set right at once by the usual' balm-not of Gilead, but of flour and sugar, &o. It docs seem hard that settlers should be taken away from their homes for months and kept under arms in anticipation that something was going to be done at once, and for ever put a slop to Maori brag and bounce; but now they are merely told to go home, and little or no consideration is had for the time they have lost. Let the present Government take a decided stand in bringing the perpetrators of tbe late outrage to justice, and they will deserve the thanks of ibis community. If they cannot do this they bad better hand over tbe government of the district to the Maori Xing, for it is a farce, to say the best of it, that in a colony like New Zetland, murderers, year after year, are allcwed to escape justice just because th-j happen to be a little blacker in the bide than the writer of this letter, pious thought has just siruck me: Per haps if the difficulty was handed over to (be Obinemuri Liberal Association, they might be able to settle the matter, as'several »ellbown Maori diplomats are members of tJiHt, body, and they cannot do less than the two great Maori wonders ho have already tried thoir bands with Such satisfactory' results.—-I am. &c., Eevoiteb,