MR. BRYCE'S RESIGNATION.— MORE LIGHT.

Observer, Volume 1, Issue 20, 29 January 1881, Page 196

MR. BRYCE'S RESIGNATION.— MORE LIGHT.

(From Our Very Special Correspondent.)

Erewhonua, Jan. 22, 18S1. Knowing that yon grudge neither trouble nor expense in securing for your readers the earliest and most trustworthy intelligence, your special continues to scour land and sea, as the following startling disclosures will prove to the most sceptical — vide ! lege ! crede ! 1 forward copies "of a secret and momentous telegrammata ! how obtained will not be revealed. The sanctity of an oath is not lightly to be profaned. Ahem ! breax/ies of faith are expensive garments, but a cool hundred (st g) discreetly dropped into an ollicial palm works wonders, and is a mere bagatelle to such journalistic enterprise as yours. Please remit the century by return. lam penniless, and fern root is getting scarce. An additional fiver will, therefore, be as a balm of Gilead to the soul of your starving special. Pertinax Philander Ferret, (a) Enclosures.— No. 1. Hon. Native Minister to Hon. Colonial Treasurer. Confidential. — ■ Taranaki, Jan. 7, 1881. — "Have matured my plan. Parihaka will be ours within a week. Copies annexed of telegrams and draft ultimatum to Te Whiti will explain everything. Sugar for Sheehan ; snakes for me !" No. 2. Hon. Native Minister to Mr. Cole, Circus, Melbourne. Taranaki, Jan. 1, 1881. — "Send per first steamer your entire collection of serpents. Draw upon Native Department, N.Z., for what you like." No. 3. Mr. Cole to the Hon. Native Minister. Taranaki, Jan. 1, 1881. — Please find enclosed in card-board boxes, per 'Arawata" via the Bluff', two thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine inches of python, cobra-capella, diamond, adder, and rattle-snake. Have drawn upon you at the rate of one guinea per inch, wiiich is considerable low, I reckon. Freight and telegram collect. Guess I shall lose dollar* by the trade. The only Linda Jeal sends her love." No. 4. From the Hon. Native Minister to Te Whiti.— "Friend Te Whiti, great is my love for you. I think of you night and day (kitera — kitcpo). The Government wishes to breed snakes on the plains. If you do not, within three days, withdraw from Parihaka I, shall let loose seventy-three lively .sci-nents as big as congers and as savage as ketipo spiders. In their native country there food is the black man. The salt flesh of the pakeha they do not relish. Lest they should devour my friends, the Maoris, my word to you is leave Parihaka at once. All of you ! all of you ! for the hungry eel will swallow the worm." (Te tuna hiokai c horo te noke.) SOXG. " Snakes I snakes, slippery snakes ! " Thicker than eels — voracious ones. " Go ! go ! in a brace of shakes, " Ye shall be picking Te Whiti's bones." Enough ! froni your friend Hose Pari-hi-hi. No. 5. The Hon. Colonial Treasurer to Hon. Native Minister. Wellington, Jan. 7, 1881. — "For Heaven's sake don't do it. Surtout point do zcle. Button up your surtout, smother the snakes and supress the ultimatum. My constituents won't like settlement of difficulty, removal of Constabulary and killing of raggety goose." No. 6. Hon. Native Minister to Hon. Colonial Treasurer. — "Can't help it; conception to brilliant to be sacriliced. The aurompavo one must die, ultimatum and snakes go to Parihaka on arrival of steamer." No. 7. Colonial Treasurer to Hon. Native Minister. Wellington, Jan. 10, ISSI. — "Have communicated with the rest. We think that you had belter resign. Hall has a plan of his own."

(a) [We have reason to suspect that our so-distnufc special is whar, the Greeks culled a Panoimios Idopcns or light-fingered stick-at.-not.hing. Until we lire assured that he has not hocusseel some unhappy ministerial journalist mid fak'-d his note hook, we shall not remit one penny. Stiil the telegrams have the genuine ring about them. — Ed. Obs.]