"OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1874.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 365, 15 September 1874, Page 2

"OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA."

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1874.

Er will be seen by a telegram in another column that it is the intention of His Excellency to pardon the jnitn Macdonalcl, who having clubbed himself champion of a tribe of natives, thought fit to shoot a horse io vindicate their supposed rights. We, in common v> ith all who are acquainted with the power for evil find the will to commit it, of the pest, the PakehaMaori, rejoiced that at last one of the fraternity Jiad placed himself within reach of the law, and received a sentence calculated to instil a little wholesome dread into the minds of his brethren. MacDonald is not an ignorant man, and therefore knew perfectly well that the crime he committed earned for him a severe sentence according to the laws tf his countrymen. It was never pleaded for him by his counsel at the trial that he was not of sound jnind ; if that had been done, and a doubt as to his panity existed, we could understand clemency bding exercised towards him ; but on no other grounds pan we conceive the justice or prudence of liberating r man who has committed a deliberate crime. So far from the fact of the act being committed in defence of natives being a mitigating feature ; we >ire of opinion that it renders the crime more heinous. What may we expect from natives when ihey learn that one of our own countrymen was pardoned after committing an offence for which even $hey would have expected punishment i The two systems of administration of the law — one for the European and the other for the natives — have long been a thorn in the side of every settler, but how much worse is the case when a European who commits a crime to establish native rights, real or imaginary, is allowed to go free. TLe fact of his putting impediments in the way of progress morally entitled him to 'his lenient sentence. We trust sincerely that His Excellency, if he desires to exercise leniency before he leaves, will find a more fitting object for it than the traitor to his countrypien now in the Wellington gaol, a place of residence he earned for himself some years ago by his semitreasonable acts. Even when a Government 'servant he used his influence to thw.irt the Government — a fine object for pity this.

Wo learn that Mr Taj lor, formeily of the firm Amos mid ThjW. Ii id been the s-utct esful tenderer for the erection of the Nun unwahm Budge. Ti c amount wo have beeu unable (o !i .irn Tin body of John Frederick, lati> puntnuin nt. Ngoruafniliiii, was found, in the nver npi.i 1 Itungiriu, on Saturday, pi>U van brought jesteiduy to iXguiii.iHuhi.i mn canou by fOn c i ulivea. We presume that an inquest will be held oil fhe Loih 10-dny. Miiijt Cniity was brought np at Kgai ua«alim on S.ifurtln}', and •enit'iiccd to tlnee monthg iiupriHonmeut in Aiount Jldm. John Eliun, for Lein^ drinil* anrl divjiderly was |iii(d £1 and <cst.«, or the jilt< ruuinc of tevin dojs mipii|i()iiii cut mill hiird labour. We ham that it the intention of Mr Hollow ay on li Is ((urn f 1 0111 (fin Nortli to vimt the Wjil.nto M\t trust that fflih'rs will doull in tlieir pomr tv enable litut to Mpprociuti* (he Wiiikiito ut ild I rue \ulin-. It i-< oiil\ lie- i\-s.ir} to show )iim \i lini Ihe land cm do and hud done, and It'iiv la litllo fin I'lil t lint I'cntj of the clurri lie ri'pre.seiiU \ml) find their V,\ iiio 1 1, - <leii.il. If I lie lulilo Uttiim Iho- iarniers yi (I tluir liilx (iKio it) lo be fuii^ht out on anjtlilng like <(,ud win-, it n M>l(-H|-)>i>r<'nt tlut theio wuibt bo a largo g.iLit4i« i. ul I.l^l i|i 10 Lliiu and other colonies,

We iiuvo to ic^oi>l the diMtli wl Mr Amlie.% i'.e\emlp- (-.v 10n..' known u> a lon.il prnctition. r in Auckland), which oc cv re.l ut .in eurlv ho.i' on Saturday morning lust Yew men were butter known than Mr IJevuidgo, who, v,> to a few \«m"*siiici, wucii his liealih began to hul, conducted m c ol i Ik- l.»ige«.t Ji'ji.u bu-une-so-t i>i the piovmce. Mr Bivi ridge, a* tin- him* of lv» ili-,u,li, li.iil been a resident of this eitj for ! übout I In i teen \ \s. In ] SOT tk> firm was known uivier the s y!e i f Beveiidgo mid It teliie, and hud under i s junior u.embur an evteiiMve conveyancing prnctu-o Air J<itcui" was, unio tu-'atelv, killed a few yours ago by a full fiom hw lioroe. Mr U vendgi., for some time after t hut ovenfc cirned < on the buaim b, alone. The dei c *ed gentleman h.n nl various l.nes lihed if>i*uii4ibii> positions in connection wit-i tne i'r ivnicml nnd Looil Governments. He was in 1862 Chairman'of the C<t\ Board, which post ho relinquish d in con--cqiiei c o! th.' i ci easing o'a.ms of a grow iig profemonal 'm-ines*. IU was succeeded in this office by Mr D.ivid Graham, who is also deceased for soms time p.ut. He was Law Adviser ut, dillirenfc tunes to various E c utive Councils of tho Province of Auckland, and nt the tuno of his deatli occupied tho responsible office of Provincial Solicitir. As to the immediate o,m-e of UU death, it appears to have been general debility. Mr Eeveiidge has been tilling for many months, tie wis for tho greater p»rt of Ins life a rain of robust habit, but sorno tuno since he slipped off the railway pi itiorin under the whcols of some carriages, wliich caused him n nervous shock from the efl'e'jts of wlucn he never completely recovered. Indeed, the c msequences of that accident upon tio learned genllemun's he.ilt'i wo very perceptible. He neier enuvely rallied. He w.u> advised to try cli mge of air. mid Mr Bevend^e ])rocecded South for a time, without, however, any apparent benefit. Upon his retu nhe giuduiilly sunk m htaltii His death imd been expected at any monieut for some weeks pint. Indeed, a premature rmnouV of that event was recently published by a contemporary, relying upon the piobability of it, which found free circulation in Southern journal*. rßevendue repieaented thoThiuutH in the foimur Provincial Council. In the present Council lv represented the district ot Eden. — Herald. Tho following cases were brought befoie the Resident Magistrate in Auckland, on Saturday :— Allen Marshnll, charged on warrant with failing to comply with the order of | the Court to contribute towards the support of his wife and i fluid. Tl.e prisoner plouled guili.ii and paid on account theMim of £1 Bs, and he whs ordered to be kept in custody until a distress wn riant should issue. Ann Dodd, wns upon the evidence of Drs Kennedy and J. E. Nicholson adjudged to be of unsound miud, and was committed to the Provincial Lunatic Asylum. We {Herald) take the subjoined from tlm columns of a conteinpoiary. The information appears to have been collated with some amount of painstaking, but we should besoiry to vouch for the aocuiacyof the tiguivs it contains. We are told ''theie aie nine provinces in New Zealand, tho apgiegato annual income of which, exclusive of contributions to the consolidated revenue, is a little over 1,300,00!)/. Of this amount, nearly forty per cent., or four hnndied thousand pounds, is absorbed yearly in administration. There are about two hundred nnd forty Provincial Councilors in receipt of honararia, and nearly eight hundred pror incially paid officials. New Zealand, with a population of about thiee hundred and thnty thousand, and a total revenue of 2,785,501)/, has something like three hundred and fifty legislators ; w hile Victoi ia, w ith <i population of seven bundled thousand and a ic\enue of 4,152,000/, has but one hundred and thiity le»is'«atois These arc rather startliig figures, but they are mainly incontrovertible. Ih \v ill t herefore he seen that Pi oviuciabsm annually costs the countiy 3/ 5s per head of the entire population of the colony." ' Saturday night's Thames Evening Star contains the following items : — "We learn that Mr James M-n kny, jun., has succeeded in effecting the purchase of the Piako lands in addition to those previously purchased. The extent of the land now acquired by the Government in the Hournki district is very lnn>e, and as soon as the country is opened <x great impetus will be given to the progress of the Thames. IHs said that over £2000 were paid in cash to natives at Whakatiwai on account of lands in this district; this, in addition to a largo sum in the shape of rhihana or orders. We aie informed that a good portion of the ready money found its va\ to the stores of those pakehas who "sold eatables and drinks, while the orders were negotiated with tho vendors of clothing." Most of our readers will remember the excitement in ISGS occasioned at the time of tho murder in the Hokiangn district of the Motive ZS'uLu by the i alf-ea^te chief Tv Wake. On the 91 h of September m that year Te Wake, having with considerable clifCcultj been secured nnd brought to town by Mr Mackny, was sentenced to death, but on certain reprcfenation being made to the Government this penalty was commuted on the 23rd of September to penal stniluile for hfet Ho hod only bm-n in the Stocknde some three month* when be made uno-1 hx escape, nnd has remained at larjre until about a wcik »go, when ho gave hin^olf up to the authorities. His capture at many times was in ado easy — indeed during Hie rcrpnt visit of His Excellency at TJokianga Te Wake wti> oik- of the natives manning tho canoo in which Sir James nnd Pint e weie being conveyed up the river — but it has been deemed politic in the interests of peac to puisne the line of conduct Hken, and which has resulted in thr self-mrrendt rof the ' ro-oncr. The understanding bptween Mr Mackny nnd Te Wnk» «rs that, if he gave himself up to the authorities tho Crowrnment would not regard his crime as one of murder, but deal with him in a liberal spirit. One of the conditions, however, was that ho was to be returned to Mount Eden, there to be dealt with. Accordingly, upon Saturday last To Woke urrived in town per Eowena. in cnarge of the Evident Mai'iMiale for Hokiangn— Mr Yon Stunner, nnd was lodged in Mount Eden gaol, where, having taken the oath of allegiance, he was granted a free pardon under the seal of the Crown. This is one of thote acts on lije part of the Government wlreh is in accordance with the peace policy, to which the natives have now become reconciled, and to have pursued any other course would probably have led to a rupture amongst, tiibes fatal to the progress and the inteiests of settlers in the Uokianga and surrounding districts. — Herald. We hear that tho business of making bags from New Zealand hemp has been commenced at Messrs Frnser and Tinne's works on tho Northern Wairoa. It would appear to be admirably adopted for this purpose, and ia doubtless well suited for other text ile fabrics of a similar kind. It is to be hoped, therefore th it such success may attend this new industry as to cncouiage its still further extension. — Herald.