The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.. Tuesday, August 11, 1891.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 645, 11 August 1891, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning..

Tuesday, August 11, 1891.

Be just and fear not; «■ Let all the ends thou aim’at at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

The spirit of the late Sydney Taiwhanga seems to be exercising an influence in the Whakatane district, which is overrun with mongrels owned by Maoris. The County Council decided to put the law in force in regard to the registration of dogs, which have been making great havoc among the sheep. A constable duly arrived at Matata, bringing with him a supply of dog collars. The Europeans did the usual grumble about the way they were burdened with taxes, but they paid the money, and there was an end to it. Not so with friend Maori, who knows a thing or two. A big indignation meeting was held, and floods of oratory poured forth until 4 a.m., by which time a definite resolution was made. The indignant people felt that they could not vent their wrath upon the Queen, or any such high and mighty personage, but they recalled the fact that they patronisd the local grog-shop, also that they sent their offspring to the school in the neighborhood, So they stamped their unshod dusky feet with all the force they could bring to bear upon the matted flooring of clay, and this is the form in which they decided to carry out their boycotting war. Not another penny is to be spent at Mr Wyatt's hotel—a resolution which every, one but Mr Wyatt, might approve of, if there was any likelihood of it being kept—and they will not allow any of their children to go to the Native school in future. Added to that, they defy the law to make them buy collars for their dogs. If the Atkinson Government were in power the Hinemoa would probably be sent up with a detachment of men whose little spree on shorn would recoup Mr Wyatt his loss. But as Whakatane is not the Chatham, what will happen, at all ?