THE TARANAKI MEETING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume V, Issue 1428, 25 March 1872, Page 3

THE TARANAKI MEETING.

To the Editor of the Evening- Herald.

Wairoa., March 20, 1872. Sir, —I have just read a vaiy one-sided eporfc in the Taranaki Herald 'of a meetriig of the old identities of that place. iAlonzo, the daughter's-husb: n I's-uncle's man, in the chair, at which a set of resolutions were passed, having been probably all cut and dried previously. I gather froip the said resolutions that the concocter of them fancies Wairoa is in the Taranald Province. I should like to know how many settlers it takes to constitute a mass, as everything appears to be done in New Plymouth by the mass of settWs, whereas at. Wairoa it is done by all the settlers. Is mass another name for clique, and settlers to be taken to mean government officials and place-hunters 1 I don't observe in the report before me any mention of the cause of the difficulty in the PateaWairoa district, viz., the'broken, pledge of the Government as to the return "of natives to the district. I have private information from a more reliable source than the Taranaki Herald that several speakers addressed the meeting in favour of the conduct of the Wairoa settlers. Why does the Herald suppress this ! 1 am also told that the mass applauded speakers in favour of Wairoa settlers. Assuming the report to be correct, and the feeling expressed in resolutions of this, and the Wairoa meeting to truly represent the feelings of settlers in the respective places, it may be worthy of the' notice of the Government, that the mild-toned longsufferingTaranaki settlers have been amply compensated for all losses sustained by him at the hands of his Maori brother, whereas the rampageous Wairoa fire-eater has been refused even a hearing as to his losses which were equally severe. I dont mean to imply by this that even after compensation the settlers of Wairoa would consent to rub noses with cannibals ; but the experiment should be tried as it might cause some slight change of feeling.—l am, &c, Wairoa.