COTEMPORARY CONSISTENCY.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 66, 30 May 1846, Page 2

COTEMPORARY CONSISTENCY.

"TO RENDER THE ' SPECTATOR ' A MORE FR E# aUENT AND EFFICIENT ORGAN 0» P(JBU 6 OPINION.'' On the 27th May we read— " Besides, his Honor has intervened in the direction of affairs; In one sense of the ttoid,- he cannot indeed be said to have acted, for he has done nothing,or rather has neglected to do what any man of common intelligence and foresight must per force have done; but in another sense, he has been all action, by approving of hesitation, delay, and sut>inenessf by .neglecting the plainest warnings, as well as by rejecting proffered assistance, before tbe mischief took place ; and ever since it happened/ be giving credence to every idle alarm, and harmssing the whole population from morning to nighty and from night to morning." Were the statements which pfeceiM

the following solemn warning, on thr23rd May, iole deports, or was the alarm expressed iri it merely a fifthi.,us display for a paiticuhir purpose—

«We warn them—for the public good, ami the pre gent crisis require us as Public Journalists boldly to proclaim the truth—We warn them that the natives are unable to account for the delay that has already taken place. They say if it had rested with them not one wouid haye 1 returned to Ilangihueata to give ah account of the conflict on the Hutt, arid that if it had been Iheir quarrel they would have etided it in a week, and they suppose the pakeha to be'afraid or unable td def hd himself. We warn them of the mischief occasioned by the wasting of precious time—of the reports which the emissaries of Rangihaeata will circulate to our prejudice—of the effects of these reports at the North, exaggerated as they will be iri their progress. ~We warn them that the milrder of the Gillespies was no common crime to be dealt with by the ordinary tribunals.—lt was a deliberate challenge by Rangihaeata.—lhe challenge was repeated when the boats were fired upon at Porirua.—lt was repeated when Gillespie's hht was burned the day previous to the attack, although the aur.horitie g remained unacquainted of the fact, —It was repeated in characters of blood on Saturday:—Whether Rangihaeata will be permitted to complete his deftnees and deal indiscriminate ruin and destruction through the land, or be signally arrested in hia career, depends entirely on the ttse they make of tho present opportunity. The time is passing !— God grant we may not have to record—The time is pastl'