The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 208, 10 July 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1879.

In common with many other nowspa pers in the Codony, we have, since na tive disturbances became an all-ab sorbing question in the North Island offered the Government advice winch subsequent events have proved to be unwise and mistaken. We have said a war was inevitable and have demanded that the Government should go in and burst up Parihaka and teach the fanatical Maori a lesson which he would always remember, Some of our contemporaries are still instructing the Ministry how to deal with Te Whiti and his followers, but it must begetting apparent to them, as it is to us, that the Premier and Native Minister, after all, know a great deal better how to treat the trespassers than those who have been criticising them so freely. The success which has so far followed the course pursued by the Government must give the public confidence in their judgment. Apparently, by the tact and forbearance of the administration, hostilities are actually being averted, and a peaceful solution of the difficulty would seem to be probable. It is due to the Government that so much should be admitted, and while we still retain onr opinion that both the Premier and the Native Minister worked the natives up to an aggressive attitude by unwise and unneccessary negotiations with them, we are very willing to concede our admiration of the course they have pursued during the past few weeks, That the happy result so far apparent is due to good management is tolerably evident, and it would be ungenerous to attribute even a portion of it to good fortune. Jf the Ministry have got us into a Maori difficulty, they deserve the credit of getting us out of it again, and we sincerely trust that the success that has attended the operations in the disturbed districts so far will be continued till all apprehension of bloodshed is at an end. Of course, the cost of arresting even unarmed ploughmen is considerable, and is estimated that Te Whiti is costing £4,000 a week; for this expenditure the Colony—and more particularly the Middle Island—will look for a' quid jno quo, and it is to be hoped that there will be no disappointment on this head. : No doubt, whatever Government is in office will look to the natives at a proper time to pay for the little

gaiiK! which they have -li'oen playing at .out' expeuso. That timo, however, has hot yet arrived, and the ■•question of compensation caii very well be deferred ior a season. ' . ... I If the, Brenner confines the speech to be delivered by His Excellency at the opening of Parliament to the Native Question, his opponents will be disappointed in applying the rods which aie doubtless now,in pickle, We, however,;, hardly think Sir George' Grey will limit himself to such an extent, or consent to smother his pet theories on so important an occasion, Probably, the NativeQues tion is the only point in his compass on which he can carry the House with him, on almost all others he has lost the sympathy and support of the entire community, and is regarded as an impracticable leader. We consider his term of office is expiring, and it is not without some satisfaction that we are able to give one who wo believe is about to lose a high political position credit fur a successful administration of. one department of his government, and in the light of the benefit conferred on the colony by this one particular triumph we hope to be able to forgive and forget all his failings and shortcomings;

The Massterton Quadrille Olub meets this evening.

A sitting of the B.M, Court at Master ton will be held to-day

We arc glad to learn that tho interior ol St. Mary's Cnurch at Carterton, has beei beautifully finished, and that re-openinj services will be hold on Sunday next.

The Greytown Borough Council has at last started to have some of the principal crossings kept clean, which is a great improvement. They have also caused their overseer to put gravel on the footpaths whero necessary,

A committee meeting of the Brass Band was held at the Empire Hotel yesterday afternoon to revise the rules previous to their being printed. The committee met again in the evening at the same place, when there were present—Messrs H. Bentley (in the chair), E. Braggins, F. W. Ruck, A. Elkins, J. G. Rock'el, E. Wylliej IV. Sellar, .T. Corbett, and J. Williams. The committee approved of the appointment of Mr Braggins as bandmaster. It was resolved that the rules be copied into the minute book, and that each member of the band be required to sign the same. It was decided that the' Bank of Australasia be the Bank of the band. After arranging that subscription lists be punted and supplied to each member of the committee, the meeting was adjourned for a fortnight. While on band matters we have been requested to say we were in error in stating in a recent issue that Mr Linn was bandmaster. Mr Bra<«mis is bandmaster, Mr Linn being instructor.

An outrage of a most cowardly nature was committed on Tuesday night at Greytown by three navvies, who broke into the shop of Mr W, J. Royclhouse and grossly illused him and Mrs lloydhouse. It appears that the family had retired at halfpast ten, and had been in bed about ten minutes when they heard a violent knocking at the shop door. Mr Royclhouse went down and without opening the door enquired what was wanted; one said " Tobacco," while the others redoubled their efforts to break the door down. Mr Royclhouse, thinking theywould go away if he served them, opened the door, when three men rushed in, ; 'one of them striking him with a stone, which cut his head, and instantly covered him with blood. Mrs Royclhouse, who had hastily donned some clothing and entered the shop, was seized by the throat and forced to the ground by another of the ruffians, and her husband, who was struggling with the other two just managed to rescue her as she was on the point of being strangled. A struggle of a very unequal nature now ensued and the besciged managed to get the three blackguards out of the door by a vigorous application of stick, when assistance arrived in the shape of Mr Salmon, Mr Wagland and several Maories, and the rascals decamped. Mr Royclhouse then went in search of the Borough Constable but he was not to be found, nor had he up to our last advices made the least inquiry about the matter. A little more solicitude on his part for the safety of the residents of the Town when rou<di customers are about wouid be more satisfactory to the public, and no effort should be spared to bring these particular offenders to justice. We understand they are supposed to be navvies who are " on strike" at Woodside. a party of whom a short time since forced their way into the Working Men's Club and created a disturbance there.

The Saturday Review thus discourse on the sensationalism exhibited in the American press and pulpit:-"Every Monday a kind of symposiums is held in the edifying pages of the New York Herald. For weeks past the preachers have been vying with each other in original ideas about eternal punishment. Fashionable people go to hear Mr Howler (who is a hard shell, or very convinced person) in the morning, and in the afternoon Mr Honeyman charms them with his gentle and genial universalism. On Monday the discourses are served up for the business men who flash past the upper windows in their delightful trains, which have added a new ornament and luxury to civilisation. Egged 'on by the Press, the clergy arc reduced to the condition of the French poet, who thinks it is his dnty to say something more startling and disgusting than the one who proceeded him. By this time the sensations which can be stirred by the ideas of eternal punishment are pretty nearly exhausted, and the pious public of New York are really to be pitied. No topic admits of being peppered much hotter, and preachers are descending in despair from high tragedy to low comedy, The Press not only reports all that has been said after but advertises beforehand the preachers and the titles of their sermons. On Sunday morning the jaded lover of excitement looks down the list of sermons as he scans the list ( of plays at the theatres, Shall he go and hear the latest effusion of the Rev Henry Ward Beecher, er shall he try some less familiar favorite? The titles of the sermons provoke rather than satisfy curiosity. Here are some of the announcements,—'A man getting out of a ship,' ' How Jonah lost his Umbrella,' 'The Speckled Bird/'A little Man up the tree,'' The Runaway Knock, and so forth. These titles have the quaint' ness without the humor, of our old English Puritans. When Mr Richard Tavernor, of Woodeaton, preached in the University pulpit in Queen Elizabeth's time he said, quite naturally. ' I have brought you some fine biskets baked in the oven of Charitie, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of L the Spirit, the sweet swallows of salvation.' The Yankee notions however,

are not natural, lnitibrced. ;v T<4 advertise thus, as Dr. TayloV ''says, is.' a deliberate letting down. of the, great aim of the Christian ministry.',-After all, tho titles are not very taking..'; iWe can all 'imagine what will be said'about. Zacchsqus, the little man up the tree/and ;the withering of Jonah's gourd is but poorly concealed by the joke about the prophet's umbrella, '•