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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2115, 14 October 1875, Page 2

Nativb matters are of such a sufficiently involved charactor that there seems to be no need for the Advertiser to attempt to raise auy small amount of unnecessary excitement by. a paragraph evidently intented to be? of a sensational and startling nature. We allude to the " Destruction of a Trig Station by .Natives at Waihi," in which we must say the Advertiser display considerable ingenuity for transforming molehills into mountains. We ourselves do not see any ground for* assuming that the destruction of the trig-station was. dictated by unrighteous motives, neither, we think, would the Advertiser, had they known as much on the subject as we have for the past week or more, have given it as a piece of iniportaut news. The facts are these —these natives who are of To Kepa's tribe, imagine that the erection of the heap of stones on laud which is included in. the reserve, tends in some way or other to "prejudice their right to the land, and have pulled them down merely to destroy any claim which, for all they know, may be made on that account, and not fromjany mischievous or mercenary motives whatever. As to " tho whole matter being arranged without difficulty " that has been all along au understood thing. In fact the whole circumstance is a piece of very ordinary and very stale news dressed up in novel and sensational garments.