The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10
7. (See page 13.)
7. (See page 13.)
Settler's Blackened Homesteads and Loss of Peoperty,—It has been said that twenty-three Homesteads were blazing in one day in New Plymouth; about 300, altogether, have been burned or destroyed there, and I believe that the loss of property in this little Settlement, where the entire white population does not exceed a few hundreds, has been estimated at considerably over a quarter of a million sterling. I do not, however, at all wish to urge this as any special grievance page 82 against the Maori—in the field he has no refinements as to combatants and non-combatants—his "way of war" is to burn and slay all be can.