WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH THE REBELS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 325, 15 August 1868, Page 6

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH THE REBELS.

Tho Wellington Independent is very outspoken in its opinion as to dealing with tiie Maori rebels ; it .says :

" It is clear that on the West Coast we have already a war on our hands, and that on the East fighting may begin at any moment. The time then has come for action. Impoverished and bowed down with debt, as our adopted country may be, we must punish and if need be exterminate those turbulent and murderous savages, who render its progress impossible. There must be no maudlin sentimentality about the matter—no more account taken of what Exeter Hall or the Aborigines Society may say or do. When the Imperial Government first hampered, and then altogether put an end to the policy of war and confiscation of July, 1863 ; when it left us saddled with a load of debt, -which had been incurred in vain, —when it finally withdrew all aid, either in money or men—then it left us to deal with native outbreaks in our own fashion. We are content to do so; and on the head of the natives be their own blood. The operations to be carried out must be short, sharp, and decisive. Within the rebel districts no mercy should be shown ; no prisoner should be taken. It should be a struggle a Voutrance. Let a price be put upon the head of every rebel, and let them be slain wherever the opportunity is afforded. We must smite and spare not. Kindness, conciliation, bribes, and threats have alike failed. We have tried to civilise these people; we have given them magistrates and schools ; we have filled their bellies with flour and sugar; who have clothed their backs with blankets. They accept our kindness, and murder the donors. They are determined to fight, and we. in self protection, must treat; them as a species of savage beasts which must be exterminated to render the colonisation of New Zealand possible."

Accident at a Tiger Hunt.—A correspondent of the Delhi Gazette, writing from the Nagode on the 2nd iust, says : —" Colonel Alexander Bagot, accompanied by Lord Downe, wounded a tigress in the jungle near Nagode on the 18th ultimo ; she took refuge in a nullah, and Colonel Bagot was in the act of aiming, when she sprang, knocking down the colonel, Lord Downe, and a shikarrie, and. seized the colonel by the leg below the knee. Lord Downe's trousers were torn by the animal's claws, and he received a severe blow on the back of the head from contact with a stone. The shikarrie was unhurt. A Ghoprka sepoy who was by with a spare gun shot the tigress. She then, releasing the colonel, took up another position and was preparing for a second spring when she fell dead. No bones were broken, and up to this time the colonel has . been going on well."

Rich as the soil of Borne may reasoI nably bo expec.tod to be iu relics of j ancient art and architecture, the recent discovery of the ancient lioman wharf denominated Emporium, and immense quantity of marble of different qualities deposited there, has surprised as well as interested antiquarians. On a length of the wharf now excavated for rather more than 50yards 493 blocks

have been already discovered They are of-the qualities known at Homo as Africano, 3Q ; J3irio, 10 ; Cipollino, GO ; I'ortasanta, 10 ; (Jailfo Antieo, 110 ; Alabastro, 20 ; Granite- delln gedia, G ; Porphyro, 2 ; Rosso Antieo, 8 ; Serpentine, 20.) ; Spatolluoro, G ; Verde Antieo, 2 ; BroecateUo, 1 ; Breccia Corallino, I; and Grreceo bianco statu'ariq, 2. As to small fragments they are almost numberless, upwards of 1000 having been already assorted, and visitors find no difficulty in carrying away speeitrienSj which they geo cut and polished in tho marble shops of Eumo. The heavy strong tribute exacted by the Caesara from the subject provinces of Africa and Greece, and unemployed in the Pagan fabrics of heathen Homo, has reappered after an immersion of IS centuries, in the muddy bank of the Tiber, and will furnish material for tho renewal of tho variegated marble pavements of all the churches in Rome for centuries to come.

Two suicides are reported by contemporaries. In Duuodin, on the"23rd ult, a man named Henry Mahon hanged himself at the Universal Hotel, Maclaggan street. Maheh was staying at the pubhe-houso, and at one o'clock in the morning ho was lying on a sofa in the diningroom, where he had been in the habit of sleeping, as he was not able to pay for a bed. At seven o'clock the landlord found the poor fellow hanging by a piece of thin cord, which had been knotted to the balustrade of the stairs. He was quite dead. The deceased was about fifty years of age, a native of Jersey. He was sober when he was last seen alive; but during the last two months he was three times in custody for drunkenness, —ln Cliristchurch, on Tuesday, a young mau of twenty-four or twentylive years of age, lodging at Uncle Tom's coffee-house, iu High street, j was discovered lying on the bed with his throat cut, and a large pocket, knife by means of which the wound had apparently been inflicted, lying on the floor by the bedside. Medical assistance was at once procured, but the wound was too severe to render it of any avail, and the man died about an hour afterwards. He was a native of Tasmania, and had been several years in the Province, but had no relations here. He was a stockdriver, lately in the employ of Mr Grigg, to whose service he was about to return, and was much respected as a steady and industrious young man. The cause of his committing suicide is by no means clear since, although evidence was brought forward at the inquest to show that he was somewhat depressed in mind just before the fataljjoccurrence took place, yet he does not appear to have been in embarrassed circumstances, nor suffering from any grief which would be likely to induce him to resort to so extreme a mode of relief from his difficulties. The jury however,-at the inquest returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."