The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TI-lURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1861,

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DONCASTER RACES-WEDNESDAY.

On Monday evening the meeting about to commence on
the morrow gave token'of,coming greatness. Trains from all
parts of England were seen to discharge their living freights
at the railway terminus, excursion accidents were forgotten,
and the subscription rooms at night were better attended—
and by better company—than we have seen them for seve-
ral years. The morning of Tuesday brought a fresh influx
of visitors. The sale of blood stock in the horse fair fur-
nished occupation for gentlemen not wishing to bet, and the
state of the odds provided excitement for those who did. A
well-filled card produced an excellent day's racing, and a
large attendance in the stand showed the advantage of libe-
rality in the management. Sixty-four horses ran for the
different stakes during the day, the most interesting of
which was the Champagne. By that race The Marquis,
who required to be roused before he could win, did not im-
prove his position for next year's Derby. The weather was
I dry, but hazy, and betting on the St. Leger filled up the in-
tervals between the races. In the rooms at night the plot
began to thicken ; standing room was hardly to be obtained,
and the reigning favourite became firmer in his position as
the time approached for people to retire.
The morning of the St. Leger was, as St. Leger morn-
ings have been time out of mind, the signal for every street
and every avenue to the town to be crowded. Before 12
o'clock a mass of moving heads were seen wending its way
towards the racecourse, which presented the usual features
of a Yorkshire gathering where horse is the object of at-
tention and horse appears to reign supreme. In the horse
fair the sales of blood stock were most attractive, the
yearlings from the stud of the Earls of Derby and Scar-
borough and Mr. Pedley realising very high prices. The
only noticeable feature in the betting. market was the in-
creased favour shown to Kildonan, about whom 7 to 1 was
freely taken, while outsiders appeared on the decline. The
favourite continued firm as on the previous evening, any
offer above 5 to 4 being eagerly accepted. The mass of
visitors who go annually to Doncaster for one day only were
agreeably surprised at finding a new terrace-platform at the
end of the Grand-stand, with such a lavatory behind it as
no railway station in England is furnished with. Before
the Scarborough-Fitzwilliam Stand stood the carriage of
the former nobleman, but the latter was unfortunately ab-
sent, a fall from his horse while cub-hunting on Saturday
morning having broken his. collar-bone. Of the two races
before the St. Leger slight heed was taken, and at three
o'clock the clerk of the scales was heard to call for " Any
jockey not weighed for the Leger ?" Punctual to the mo •
ment the field of 18 mustered at the starting-post, after
having entered the paddock and taken their canters. At
the sixth attempt they got off nearly in a line, the favourite
having a very prominent position, while the winner, un-
thought of even by her owner, lay about the centre of her
horses, until symptoms of distress began to show them-
selves in some of those before her. She was ridden with
great patience by her young jockey, who waited at the side
of Rogers on The Sage until the moment for going up ar-
rived, when he quitted him, and was soon seen among the
leaders. This was the fastest St. Leger ever known, and it
is not a little remarkable that the winner of it was offered
for sale on Tuesday evening at 1,200 guineas. The last bet
that we saw taken on the race was 500 to 6 against Caller
Ou. Her owner did not back her, and Grimshaw, who was
engaged to ride her, begged to be allowed to change his
mount; his request was granted, and he rode Camerino.
The tumult consequent on a great event soon subsided, and
the remaining races seemed to have no attraction for the
assembled thousands, who had passed a glorious day upon
Doncaster Town Moor.

A Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, h ft, with 50 added, for 2-
yr-olds, 7st, and three, Bst 101 b; fibies and geldings al-
lowed 31b; the owner of the second horse to save his
stake. Red House in. 10 subs.
Mr. IL William-on's Virgilius, 3 yrs, Set 10lb
(J. Osborne) 1
Mr. J. Osborne's North Pole, 2 yrs, 7st (Whiteley) 2
Baron Rothschild's Spark, 2 yrs, 7st (J. Hayhoe) 3
Captain Coate's Patriot, 2 yrs, 7st (H. Grimehaw) 4
Betting-5 to 4on Patriot, 10 to 3 agst Virgilius, and 9
to 2 agst Spark.
Spark jumped away at a smart pace, closely followed by
the favourite and Virgilius next the rails, North Pole, who
got badly off, being several lengths in their rear. On near-
ing the distance Vigilius obtained a slight lead, and North
Pole, who had gradually improved his position, here joined
the leaders, the lot running in close company to the Stand,
where Spark and Patriot were in trouble, and were passed
by North Pole; tae latter, however, was never enabled to
reach Virgilius, who won easily by a length. A head be-
tween the second and third. Patriot a bad fourth.

The Stand Plate Handicap of 5 sous each, with 50 added,
for 3-yr-olds and upwards, the owner of the second horse

to save his stake. Red House in.
Lord Chesterfield's Black Lily, 3 yrs, 7st (car. 7st 111 b)
(W. Bottom) 1
Mr. J. Osborne's Maid of the Mist, 5 yrs, Bst 71b
(J. Osborne) 2
Mr. C. Peck, jun 's Bernice, 3 yrs, 7st.. (H. Grimshaw) 3
The following also ran :—Phantom, Lord of the Manor,
Newburgh, Buttercup, Swift, Vergiss-mein-Nicht, The
Drake, Weatherwitch, and Whitewell.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Lord of the Manor, sto 1 each agst
Maid of the Mist and Vergiss-mein-Nicht.
An excellent start was obtained at the first time of asking.
Black Lily, next the rails, made the running, waited upon
by ergiss-mein-Nicht, Maid of the Mist, Lord of the Ma-
nor, Bernice, and Weatherwitch, with the others closely
laid up. In this way they ran to the entrance of the Stand
enclosure, where Vergiss-mein-Nicht and Lord of the Ma-
nor were beaten, and dropped back. Black Lily at the same
time increased her lead, followed by Maid of the Mist and
Bernice, the former winning in a canter by three lengths ;
a head between the second and third. Lord of the Manor
was a bad fourth, Weatherwitch fifth, Vergiss-mein-Nicht
sixth, and Phantom next, the last three being Whitewell,
Newburgh, and Buttercup.
The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, for three-yr-olds ;
colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; the owner of the second
horse to receive 100 sovs out of the stakes ; the winner to
pay 100 soya towards expenses, 25 sovs to the judge, and
25 sovs to the starter. St. Leger Course.
Mr. W. I'Anson's Caller Ou (Challonee

Mr. Cookson's Kettledrum (L. Snowden
Mr. T. Parr's Kildonan
Baron Rothschild's Janus Wells'

Mr. Alfred na Billy Dwindles (E. Sharpe)
Duke of Beaufort's The Rae
Lord Glasgow's Clarissa colt (Aldcroft)
Mr. R. Harrison's Lady Ripon (Bullock)
Mr. T. Hussey's Brown Stout (Charlton)
Mr. Merry's Russley (Custance)
Sir C. Monck's Gardener
Mrs. Osbaldestone's Camerino .. (Grimehaw)
Sir C. Rushout's Conqueror
Captain Skipworth's Aurelian , (J. Goater;
Lord Stamford's Imaus (A. Edwards)
Lord Strathmore's The Sage (S. Rogers:
Mr. H. W. Thomas's Dictator (J. Osborne:
Colonel Towneley's Yorkminster

Betting-11 to 8 agst Kettledrum, 7 to 1 agst Kildonan,
9to 1 agat Lady Ripon, 12 to 1 agst Imaus, 11 to 1 agst
Aurelian, 100 to 6 agst The Roe, 20 to 1 agst Janus, 30
to 1 each agst The Sage and Russley, 40 to 1 agst Brown
Stout, 50 to 1 agat Camerino, and 1,000 to 10 agst Con-
queror.

After the horses had taken a preliminary canter they
reached the post precisely at the time set down on the card,
but the start was delayed some time through Camerino,
The Sage, Conqueror, and the favourite repeatedly breaking
away. At last the cry of " They're off" arose, and Camerino
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the pace, followed by the favourite, next the rails, Came-
rine going on third, Lady Ripon fourth, Dictator fifth,
with Imaus next; the others, headed by Aurelian and The
Sage, lying in a claster at their heels, wi!.h the excep-
tion of Brown Stout, Janus, and Conqueror, who were last,
some distance in the rear. In this order they proceeded
without any material change towards the hill, approaching
which Lady Ripon was seen to give way, and shortly after
fell into the sixth place. The leading horses at the same
time got closer together, and on rounding the Fitz-William
turn Yorkminster gave way to Kettledrum, who, with
Camerino, Caller Ou, and Dictator in close attendance,
came on with a clear lead, Kildonan, with Imaus and Russ.
ley, lying up. Passing the rifle butts Kettledrum:increased
his lead to a couple of lengths in advance of Camerino,
Dictator, and Caller Ou, who were followed by Aurelian,
Kildonan, Janus, and Imaus, and to these the race ap-
peared confined. On rounding the Red House turn Came-
rim) and Dictator were disposed of, and Caller Ou joined
the favourite; Aurelian in company with Kildonan and
Janus at the same time came on together. Kildonan hang-
ing in the turn upon Aurelian tore his off-hind shoe off,
whatever chance he might have, had, and he
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having a slight lead, loud shouts at the time accompanying
every stride, "The favourite wins;" but shortly after
Caller Ou came out, and headed the favourite, who gamely
struggled to the end, but despite the utmost efforts of L.
Snowden, after one of the longest and gamest struggles

seen for some time, he was beaten on the post by a head,
Kettledrum defeating Kildonan by 10 lengths for second ;
the latter passing the post a head in advance of Janus, who
was fourth, Russley was fifth, Dictator sixth, Itnans
seventh, Camerino eighth, and Aurelian next. The last
four were Clarissa colt, Yorkminster, Billy Dwindles, and
Brown Stout. The latter, who never took any prominent
position in the race, suddenly gave in on reaching the Red
House. Charlton immediately stopped him, and, instead
of receiving the ovations of the multitude as a winner, he
was left ingloriously to find his way home, accompanied by
the multitude who thronged the running•ground. Run in
3 min. 14 secs.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs'each, h ft, with 50 added ;
for two-yr-olds. Winners extra. The owner of the se-
cond horse to save his stake. Red House in.

Captain Christie's My Partner, 7st 21b (Bottom) 1
Baron Niviere's Genealogie, Bst 21b.... (H. Grimshaw) t
Mr. C. Lambert's Humphrey, 7st 41b .. (Edwards) t
Baron Rothschild's Morocco, 7st 71b (Charlton) 4
The following also ran :—Tim Whiffler, Annette, Sir
William Armstrong, King of Kars, Jackal, Miss Living-
ston, Pot- Pourri, Salamanca, Lady Dundas, Lord Albert,
and Treachery filly.

Betting-4 to 1 each agst Treachery and Humphrey, 6
to 1 each agst My Partner and Morocco, and 8 to 1 each
agst Genealogie and Lady Dundas.

Humphrey, with My Partner, Genealogic, and Morocco
close to him, made running to the Stand, where he declined,
and My Partner went on with the lead. She was not after-
wards headed, but won cleverly by three-quarters of a
length, Humphrey and the French mare running a dead
heat for second place. Morocco was beaten by a head only
from the two, Treachery was fifth, and Annette sixth.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas; three-yr-olds, Bst
31b ; four-yr-olds, 9st 71b ; five-yr-olds, 9st 131 b ; six-
yr-olds and aged, 10st. Cup Course.

Mr. T. Parr's Avalanche, 4 yrs, 9st 71b .. (Fordham) 1
Mr. J. Holt's Crusade, 3 yrs, Bst 31b ..... (E Harrison) 2
Lord Zetland's Bivouac, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Osborne) 3
Betting-5 to 4on Avalanche.

Bivouac made the running at a slow pace, followed by
Avalanche and Crusade to the mile post when the latter
took second place, and on making the bend, he ran up to
the leader, and shortly after obtained a slight lead, the
three coming on together to the stand, where they joined
issue. Avalanche, making her effort in the centre of the
stand, obtained a clear lead, and won a good race by three
parts of a length, a little distance separating the second
and third.

The Corporation Plate of 100 sovs, added to a handicap
stakes of 10 sovs each, sft, for all ages; winners extra;
the owner of the second horse to receive 15 sovs out of
the stakes. T.Y.C.
Baron Niviere's b g Cosmopolite, 6 yrs, 9st 71b . .

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Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Owen's b c Brilliant, 3 yrs, 6st ..... (H.
... (H. Taylor) 2
Mr. J. Jackson's b e Longshot, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (J. Doyle) 3
The following also ran :—Miss Whip colt, The Monk,
Slingsby, Lancelin, lTictrix, and Biondella.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Brilliant, 4to 1 each agst Victrix
and Cosmopolite, and 100 to 15 agst Longshot.
After several failures the favourite jumped off in front,
attended by Longshot and Miss Whip colt, with Cosmopo-
lite about two lengths from them next the rails. They ran
thus to the last bend, where the French horse came out,
and in a few strides obtained the lead, which he retained tp
the end, and won by three lengths. Longshot was four
lengths from the second; Victress was fourth, and the Miss
Whip colt fifth.

The Municipal Stakes of 200 sovs each, la ft, for 2-yr .olds ;
colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b ; the owner of the second
horse to save his stakes. Red House in.
Lord Glasgow's c by Stockwell, darn by Orlando—

Brown Bess ....................... ............ w. e.

BETTING AT MIDNIGHT.
THE DONCASTER CUP.
7 to 4on The Wizard
6to 1 bar one
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
20 to 1 agst Paste
20 to 1 agst Henham Lass
25 to 1 agsi Rapparee
25 to 1 agst Calpe
100 to 7 agst Umpire
100 to 7 agf.t Makeless filly

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
100 to 6 agst Donner-und-Blitz
20 to 1 agst Sweet Hawthorn
25 to 1 agst Gabrielle d'Estrees
30 to 1 agst Sutton
40 to 1 agst Diophantus
50 to 1 agst Dr. Nichol
100 to 1 agst Tom Bowline

TVILLIAM TITH.MPSON, THE NEW ZF,A-

LAND A7NOIIAKER.

William Thompson, who is at present playing so
conspicuous a part in the affairs of New Zealand,
is the principal chief of the Ngatihana tribe, which
inhabits a large and fertile tract of country lying
between the Waikato and Thames rivers. Thename
of his father, Te Waharoa, is still notorious in Wai-
kato for the -ferocity and cunning which he exhibited
in the perpetual land feuds of the last generation:
Thompson is more than 40 years old and not very
prepossessing in personal appearance ; he has
always borne a high character among the missiona-
ries and his other European acquaintances. Though
undoubtedly ambitious, he has uniformly evinced
the desire to attain distinction by good rather than
by evil actions. At his conversion to Christianity
he declared that he would never fight again; since
that time, though living in the midst of innumera-
ble quarrels and bloodshed, he has never personally
engaged in war, but has consistently and most suc-
cessfully performed the part of a peacemaker. There
is every reason to believe his own assertion, that he
originally conceived the idea of a Maori king as a
means of putting a stop to the bloody land feuds by
which the Waikato district was being depopu-
lated. For this object the establishment of a king
proved completely successful. Thompson has been
an active promoter of schools, having maintained at
his own village, Matamata, a school of 60 children
for nearly three years, without any assistance from
the Government and without the advantage of a
European teacher, for which he has always been
most anxious. Even during the perplexities and
excitement of the past year he has been continuous
in his efforts for this object, and has at length ob-
tained a teacher, who is to go to Matamata as soon
as the present troubles are over. Thompson has
been at all times a steady advocate for the establish-
ment of law and order among his countrymen.
Having embraced Christianity from conviction, and
not from hereditary custom, and being in the habit
of constantly reading the Bible as almost his only
literature, he defends his actions by religious
maxims, and intersperses his writings with biblical
quotations to what appears to us an unusual degree.
It would be a mistake to suppose this the result of
cant or hypocrisy.
This man has recently become the head and mouth-
piece of the Waikato tribes and their adherents,
who comprise the great majority of the Maories ;
it is by negotiation with him that the Government
of New Zealand proposes to decide whether there
is to be peace or war between the two races. It
may, therefore, be not uninteresting to the public
to be informed of the attitude which Thompson has
assumed towards the English Government since
the commencement of the New Zealand war, and
the events which have led to the temporary union
under his leadership of a race which has hitherto
been in a condition of constant confusion and dis-
cord. The writer has endeavoured to confine him-
self strictly to matters of fact, leaving the reader to
draw his own conclusions.
For some time after the commencement of the
war at Taranaki, which took the Waikato tribes
completely by surprise, Thompson expressed no
opinion as to the merits of the contending parties.
At the great meeting held at Ngarnawahia in May,
1860, he made a speech urging delay and caution.
They were, he said, totally in the dark
the
causes the rights of William King and
causes for which the Governor had declared war;
after they had learned the facts
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Maori King,
then for the first time gave in his
Maori King party, the flag. was sent down to the
Waitara to be hoisted over his land ; but it was not
sent as a flag of war, nor to the disputed block. At
first only a few adventurous volunteers went down
from Waikato to fight at Waitara, animated by the
same sort of motives that recruited a regiment of
English for the service of Garibaldi ; but when the
war was prolonged, when troops were brought
over from Australia to aid the Government, when
the belief that William King was an injured man
became almost universally diffused among his coun-
trymen, and when he himself pressed for assistance
many influential Waikato chiefs became desirous to
support in arms that cause which they believed to
be a just one. Among others, Wetini, a chief of
one of the branches of the Ngatihana tribe, and a
relative and close friend of William Thompson, re-
solved to go. Thompson appears at this time to
have been satisfied of the justice of William King's
cause, but not of the right of Waikato to interfere
in his behalf ; at any rate, he strongly dissuaded
Watini from going. He used religious arguments
against war ; he held a meeting of the tribe, at
which Wetini's proposals found only nine supporters
and for the time succeeded in keeping him back.
But three weeks latter a letter came from William
King, asking why they had had sent him only a
disembodied flag, and why they did not personally

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number of his tribe to the war. Thompson's
were, " Then go and stop there."
The Patumahoe affair, which took place in
October, 1860, was the only occasion on which
Thompson appeared as a party to any hostile demon-
stration against the Government. The corpse of a
Maori, with gunshot wounds in tho hand and head,
was found in the forest in the neighbourhood of Patu-
mahoe, a village lying between the lower end of the
Waikato river and the Manukan harbour. The hasty
inference that be had been murdered by a European
,pread like wildfire among the already excited na-
r fives, and brought some dozen canoes with 300 or
400 armed men down the river, bent upon an in-
quest into the cause of their countryman's death.
Among them was Wiliam Thompson. They stopped
a day at Paetai, danced a war-dance, and held a
meeting; at the close of the proceedings a letter was
received from Isaac, the chief of the dead man's
tribe, stating that all was right and they might re-
turn ; but, knowing Isaac to be in the pay of the
Government, they continued their course to Tuakan,
a Maori village on the river near Patumahoe, and
not 40 miles from Auckland, to inquire for them-
selves. They were there met by several chiefs
friendly to Government, by the Bishop of New
Zealand, and by Archdeacon Maunsell, of the
Church Missionary Society; and finding that there
was not the slightest clue to the perpetrators of the
deed, and that it was even uncertain whether the
death was not after all accidental, the canoes and
armed men went back up the river, having done no
further harm than giving the Auckland public a
fright. Thompson both at the time and afterwards
justified his share in these proceedings by saying
that the young men were resolved to go down to
Patumahoe, and that he was unable to restrain
them from so doing, but that by accompanying them
it was possible that he might keep them from mis-
chief when there. It is certain that at Paetai he ad-
vocated a return. While discussions were going on
at Tuakan a chief named Whakapankai (which, in
free English, is " Gorging Jacky"), who enjoys one
of the worst reputations in Waikato, separated with
some choice spirits, in two canoes from the main
body and paddled down the river on some private
exhibition of his own. His absence was pointed
out to Thompson, who exhibited the liveliest con-
cern, and promptly sent off a letter to fetch him
back. Had there been the least delay or lukewarm-
n .2ss in this matter Thompson's interference would
have been too late to prevent bloodshed.
Immediately after the termination of the
Patumahoe affair the news of the battle of Mahoe-
tahi, in which Wetini and many of the Ngatihana
tribe had fallen, reached Waikato. This disaster,
so far from disheartening the Waikato tribes and
putting an end to their interference in the war, as
was expected by many persons in England, had the
contrary effect of increasing their excitement, and
many who had disapproved of Wetini's expedition
were now burning to join in the conflict and avenge
the blood of their kinsmen. Thompson himself
was strongly pressed to go, but he appears to have
been still restrained by conscientious scruples.
Numbers of his tribe, however, went and distin-
guished themselves by ill-judged and reckless
assaults on the English positions, in which many
lives were lost.

These continued misfortunes were from time to
time reported in Waikato ; wounded men returned
to their villages, and Thompson was constantly and
urgently called upon to go. The great losses which
hig tribe had suffered in many instances from want
of a prudent leader weighed strongly in Thomp-
son's mind, and was, perhaps, the paramount con-
sideration which prompted him to visit the scene of
conflict and endeavour to stay that destruction of
his tribe which threatened soon to destroy his own
influence and importance. He went, however, not
as a belligerent, but as a peacemaker.
William Thompson arrived at the Waitara on
Monday, the 11th of March. Before entering
Pukerangiora, the besieged Pah, he halted on the
north bank of the river, opposite to the English
camp, to which he sent a letter asking for a truce
on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, to give him
an opportunity of visiting Te Rangitake
King) and the fighting chiefs. He stated that he
was a man of authority, and that his tribe would
make good his stipulations. General Pratt's reply
reproved him for dissimulation, and exhorted him
to candour. The truce on Tuesday and Wednes-
day would be granted, but the peacemaker was
warned in strong terms to keep his word, " lest
he should be known as a deceitful man." Upon
receiving this letter, it being then late in the
afternoon, Thompson went on to Pukerangiora.
OD the following morning a white flag was hoisted
on the pallisades of the pah, but, as there was
no wind to blow it out, the firing of our troops
had recommenced before it was perceived.
Thompson sat down, and wrote an answer to the
General's letter of the previous afternoon. " I
see," he wrote, " that you accuse me of deceiving
you. You have been crafty towards me ; your
soldiers have come to-day within the trench, and
fired. Now, I know, in the first place, you are a
crafty man, and, in the second, you are a man with-
out authority among your people." The mistake
was explained, and an apology offered for the harsh
missive with which communications had opened the
day before.

The greater part of Tuesday was taken up in
talking over those Waikato chiefs who had already
taken part in the war, and who, when Thompson's
pacific intentions were announced, cried and shouted
against them. It was already afternoon before the
desired unanimity 'Among the Waikatoes had been
attained. A message was then sent to William
King to desire a talk, which, at the request of that
chief; was fixed for the following morning.
On Wednesday the meeting between Thompson's
party, the fighting Waikatoes, and William King's
tribe took place. The proceedings were opened by
Thompson, who, after abundant circumlocutions, at
length plainly broached the important opinion that,
however much William King might be interested
in the disputed land at Waitara and in the quarrel,
it was no business of the Waikatoes.

" No," said William King, interrupting him,
" neither Waitara nor the quarrel is mine ; they
are yours."

" No," retorted Thompson, " they are yours."
" No ; they are yours."

" Why, look at a man," continued Thompson,
" his head is head ; his hands, hands ; and his legs,
legs. You are the head, Waikato is only the legs."
" No, you aro the head."
"No, you."

" YeS," said William King, "I am the head ;
Waitara is mine, the quarrel is mine. There !
I give Waitara to you." He further declared,
in answer to Thompson, that his gift was free
and unreserved, and that be claimed no fur-
ther voice whatever in the disposal of the land.
Hapurona (who has since made a separate
peace with the Governor), and the various Wai-
kato and Ngatimaniapoto chiefs were successively
challenged, and publicly announced their assent
to William King's gift, and their willingness that
the unreserved disposal of the land should be
yielded to William Thompson.
Thus suddenly appointed sole arbitrator on the
native side Thompson proceeded to make his
award. " Waikato! back to Waikato ! To Atiawa!
away to Mataitawa ! Ngatimanui ! return to your
homes ! Let the soldiers be taken back to New
Plymouth ; Waitara shall be left under the protec-
tion of the law."

A letter was sent the same evening to the
General, to propose a cessation of hostilities on
both sides, and that the land question should be
left for the decision of the Great Runanga (coun-
cil) of the Queen. On Thursday morning an inter-
view took place between Thompson and an officer
of the Native Department. The former repeated
his proposals, and begged that the troops might be
at once taken back to New Plymouth ; he was told
that the Governor alone had power to order such a
step, and was invited, if really desirous of peace, to
proceed by ship to Auckland. " What," asked
Thompson, " was the crime of Ramparaha (a chief
who was kidnapped and carried off in a man-of-
war by Sir George Grey), and what was the crime
of Pomare ? These men's crimes were mere trifles;
I am a very bad man, far worse than either of them;
I am both a King-maker and the head of this
quarrel. I dare not go on board your ship, lest I
should be treated as Ranparaha and Pomare were."
He offered to go by land and meet the Governor in
three days at Tuakan, the nearest point of the
Waikato river to Auckland. "If the Governor is
afraid to come there," he said, "let him bring his
soldiers to take care of him ; or, if he does not like
to talk in the open air, let him come to Ngarna-
wahia ; we have a house (the Maori King's palace)
there."

As it was found impossible to persuade the chief
to venture into our power, it was at last agreed that
his proposals should be sent by steamer to the
Governor at Auckland ; but the General would not
consent to a suspension of hostilities until an answer
should be received. Thompson in vain urged the
desirability of saving human life; the General re-
plied that it would be a waste of time, and that

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firing would recommence on the following morning.
On Friday our white flag had disappeared, but
that of the enemy was by Thompson's orders still
kept flying. The soldiers entered the sap and com-
menced digging; no opposition was offered. They
proceeded to fire upon the Maori pah. "Now," said
Thompson to the fighting chiefs, " do what you
please.' The white flag was hauled down, and the
war flag hoisted; firing continued on both sides
during that day, Saturday, and Sunday. The
Maories say that during those days they did not
lose a man ; on our side Lieutenant Macnaughten,
R.A., was killed, and several men wounded. Wile
Ham Thompson took no part in the fighting.
On Monday Mr. M'Lean, the Native Secretary,
arrived and had an interview with Thompson. He
had not brought the Governor's consent to the troops
being taken away from Waitara. Thompson was
much annoyed, and asked what he had come for ;
he thought the Governor was very foolish ; however,
he would have no more to do with Waitara, he had
told all the Maories to disperse, Waitara was left
under the protection of the law, and he should re-
turn to Waikato forthwith. Mr. M`Lean said that
if the various tribes would cease hostilities and dis-
perse the Governor would treat with them sepa-
rately. There were four matters to be disposed of
—l. The disputed land at Waitara; 2. The mur-
ders; 3. The property of settlers that had been
taken or destroyed; 4. The Maori King.
Thompson returned from Waitara mortified and
disappointed. He went down with inteations
friendly to the English, desirous of distinction no
doubt, but of the distinction of a peacemaker ; his
advances were rejected, ho was accused of promoting
war and rebellion, he was forced into the position
of a belligerent though he had never fired a shot,
and he came back under a threat of war. After
visiting several tribes on and near Waikato, to as-
certain their sentiments about the surrender of the
Maori King, he settled quietly down at Tamahere,
Wetini's village, on the Upper Waikato, hoisted a
white flag, and waited for the Governor's next
move. He had declined a proposed meeting with
him at Mangere, on the ground that he feared
imprisonment. He informed Europeans by whom
he was visited that they were all de-
termined to uphold the King ; that they w ere no
breakers of the treaty of Waitangi, for neither his '
I father, himself, nor any of the Waikatoes had ever
signed or agreed to it, except seven old men who
had been bribed by blankets to do so. He denied,
I however, that there was any desire on their part to
trample upon the authority of the Queen ; they had
constituted Potatan their head, and called him King
as a centre round which they might rally, in order
that they might do for themselves what had not
been done for them—namely, make laws to take the
place of their old Maori customs which were obso-
lete or injurious. He thought that their King
should be to them what the Governor was to the
Europeans; that the two races should be united
by one law, and that the Queen should be over them
all. At the same time they wished to administer
English law themselves—that is, to take our laws,
so far as suitable to their circumstances, and carry
them out among themselves, without being respon-
sible to any higher authority.
In the month of May a clerk of the Native-office
was sent with a letter to Thompson, reminding him
that a portion of his tribe and other Waikatoes had,
without provocation, gone down to fight at Tara-
naki, and asking what compensation they intended
to make for the evil they had done. Soon after the
receipt of this letter Thompson began a reply to the
Governor in vindication of the Waikato tribes, but
before it was finished and despatched the Governor's
printed ultimatum was brought by a native into
Waikato. It contained a strong denunciation of
the King party, who were accused of being the
authors of nearly all the mischief which had oc-
curred since the commencement of the Taranaki
I war. "The Governor," it said, "cannot permit
the present state of things to continue. No option
now rests with him; he has been commanded by
her Majesty the Queen to suppress unlawful com-
binations, and to establish beyond a question her
Majesty's sovereignty in New Zealand." Thomp-
son read a copy of this proclamation aloud toWilliam
King, and a party of other influential chiefs, who
were lodging at Raps, a village near Tamahere, on
their way to a great meeting to be held at Ngar-
nawahia ; his audience expressed no opinion further
than a. want of confidence in any document pro-
ceeding from the Government,
The meeting at Ngarnawahia began on Monday,
June 3. The following account of what took place
is from a gentleman who was present, and whose
statements may be relied upon :—Tuesday, 'Wed-
nesday, and Thursday were spent in talk and eat-
ing, but it was not until Thursday that any ques-
tion of real importance was discussed, when the
following points were brought forward :
"1. The taking down of the King's flag, and
breaking up the league into which they had entered
to keep their land.

" 2.The restoration of plunder' and payment for
what had been destroyed.
" 3. What should be regarded as a recommence-
ment of hostilities on the part of the troops."
The first question was disposed of almost entirely
by Thompson, who commenced by denying that
the flag had ever been intended to do away with
the supremacy of the Queen as the protector of
their rights and privileges; it was the badge of
an agreement made among themselves not to part
with land, and to hold meetings which should
take cognisance of and suppress evil among them-
selves. He detailed what he considered had resulted
from this combination; disputes about boundaries
existing at its commencement had been set at rest;
other disputes of the same kind that had since
arisen had been quietly arranged; drunkenness,
adultery, &c., had been suppressed, and they were
now working to put down other evils also that
were still existing. He denied that the flag had
ever been the cause of the Waikatoes going to Ta-
ranaki, but he maintained that blood relationship
would have driven them to it bad there been no flag.
He expressed his good will to Europeans generally,
declaring that he had never yet fought against
them, but had been the means of stopping fighting
in Waitara ; but he intimated that, in the event of
hostilities being recommenced, he could remain
neutral no longer. He ended by saying that when
the flag was set up upon any land fairly sold to the
Queen, or when it otherwise interfered with the
rights of the colonists, then would be the time for
the Governor to interfere.

The meeting then proceeded to discuss the second
point. The argument used was, that the Queen's
troops had commenced the war; had attacked and
destroyed William King's pah, with all that was in
it ; had appropriated horses and cattle which he
and others had about Waitara, and burnt and de-
stroyed their property. It was therefore unfair to
demand restitution and compensation from them,
while the Governor did not say a word about com-
pensating William King. Moreover, very little
plunder was brought away by the Waikatoes, who
did not go to plunder colonists, but to defend their
friends from the attacks of the soldiers.

On the third head, it was resolved that the sur-
vey of any of the lands of William King and his
tribe, or the movement of troops to Maungatwiri
(the point where the great south road meets the
Waikato river), or to any point where it would be
clear that a hostile movement against them was
intended, would be a call to them to wake out of
sleep.
At the conclusion of the meeting Thompson read
a rough copy of the letter which he had prepared
for the Governor, and which, after some revision,
was generally assented to. The Runanga also ad
dressed a letter to the Governor. They expressed
a wish that the letters should be printed for gene-
ral information. These letters are very uncompro-
mising, and do not contain even that verbal acknow•
ledgment of the Queen's supremacy which Thompson
has made both publicly and privately on several
recent occasions.

There is no doubt that William Thompson is at
present engaged in active preparations for war. He
is visiting the natives from Tauranga to the East
Cape, probably to ascertain what support in men
and ammunition he can count upon. He still ex-
presses a strong desire for peace, and a determina-
tion not to be the first to commence a struggle,
which he is aware must end in the destruction of
his race, but for the consequences of which he does
not consider himself in any way guilty.

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL, Sept. 17.—1 t blew here
OA Saturday last a strong gale from the north-east, which
caused the sea to run very high. It was accordingly
thought a desirable opportunity by the hon. secretary of
the Newquay branch of the National Lifeboat Institution
to test thoroughly the beautiful lifeboat which that society
sent here some time ago. The boat was accordingly brought
out mounted on her transporting carriage, and having been
fully manned, was, with much promptitude, launched from
the carriage. Her crew, with the oars in their hands, soon
obtained headway before the advancing breakers had time
to beat the boat broadside on the beach. The waves, in-
deed, did run very high, and broke with much violenc,
the boat nobly breasted them and fully confirmed th.0,01°3 °_
I
pression of her :crew, that their lifeboat was caPaem
react ehipwrecked crewin the most furious gal .