The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1861.

New Zealander, Volume XVII, Issue 1574, 18 May 1861, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1861.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at, be thy Country’s, Thy God’s, end Truth’s.

We readily give prominence to the following letter, and will be glad to be placed iu possession of evidence that the article, “ Maori New Zealand” published in the Church Missionary Intelligencer for the mouth of January) does not really represent the views of the Church Missionary Society on the subject ot colonization, and that those views do not meet the approval of the men who are engaged in the Missionary work of that Society in New Zealand : To the Editor of the New-Zkalandeb. Sir, —You will, I hope, allow me to express regret with which I have read the remarks in yonr last papers on the Church Missionaries and the Chur t Missionary Intelligencer. , In the Conference on Missions held last J 641 Liverpool the Church Missionary Intelligencer W pronounced to be the very first of its among? _ the publications of all the missionary bodies m u Britain. The editor, a man of considerable ta hj and a clergyman of the Church of England, whi e solicits information from his friends in different P of the missionary world, seems to follow an indepen course of study of his own, and to deduce ms 0 conclusion from the documents before him. " at such a distance from the scenes of action, an , • pendent, as he necessarily is on a multitude of an ties, it will not be surprising if his conclusions sometimes erroneous. But he would be utter worthy of his position and character if, when aa . is pointed out, he did not at once correct it. should we, the Church Missionaries in this part island, be slow to point out such error. Our in . are intimately identified with those of the rro * and to charge us therefore with the authorship depreciating article is tantamount to saying t arc zealous in damaging our own interests. Most of the English papers have exhibited au curate acquaintance with Maori affairs, and j . recollect that the editor of that periodical *°“ n n . matter for thought in the New Zealander an temporaries. If he has been misled, pom . f errors, and you will find many a ™o n Sf J Statements, who will earnestly urge him to rectify hi rpm arkß But I would beg you and the writers whM ® you have thought it well to introduce into -, p coo d that mere loose assertions and abuse do but B t jj 6 to a cause. “He has lost his argumen , ; East Indians, “ don’t you see that he has 1 rf temper?’’ and I fear that, unless a . arguing be adopted, the opinions of the L g meß . will be but little exalted by his New Zealand cotnmca tutors. Yours truly, A Church Mission*** May, 11, 1861. The article which we felt ourselves M upon to notice, was certainly an g a e .

• ..nnl in which it was published is, we the J ourn . „ tlie ver y fi r3 t of its class have no publications of all the MisaniODgS - n Great Britain,” although ST'not, perhaps, the highest form of Hteth £ ur<iise--and in these two circumstances is danger of a publication, where talent nd character are enlisted in the propagation 9f We°are hound, however, to accept the ac t (riven by our correspondent, of the anShip of the' article, and we must then admit that a gentleman —not having personal ac- „ ntwce with this Province and its miserably Sous politics,—" writing at such a distance S the scenes of action, and dependent as he necessarily is upon a multitude of anthont.es, Jin extreme danger of making grave mistakes. What we have to complain of, however, is that • the case to which we now refer, no pains mto have been taken to avoid them. From !£! whining of some of the local Missionaries, t rrified at the advancing wave of civilization, f t he brazen assertions of the “ direct-pur-he” men, an( * out ie re^<less untruthf loess of a local journalist, whose business was to mislead the public on the subject of the f ft aC re system—the writer in the Church Missionary Intelligencer -a gentleman intdndino to speak rightly—has drawn a picture 0 f the condition of affairs and of the state of °blic opinion in this Province as unlike the truth, as if a very malignant ingenuity had directed bis enquiries and guided his pen. We cannot resist the temptation to reproduce here, the following sketch of the white “populace” of New Zealand, from the hand of a venerable dignitary of the Church, which is extracted from a letter addressed to the A bobines' friend and Colonial Intelligencer : “The various provinces in New Zealand,with jealous endeavours, invite immigrants from all parts of the world; l as t h eS e reach our shores, week after week, and month after month, in high expectation of enjoying at nco the land that is said to flow with milk and honey, and being disappointed in their dreams, they join the (elfish portion of the white population in their cry, • Doim with the natives, we must have their unoccupied lands civilization cannot be stopped on account of a race.’ The responsible Ministry is controlled r, such a populace ; the Governor is influenced and guided by such a responsible Ministry, and the native race must go to the wall.

In communications, such us this, may be found the best apology for the errors into which the author, of “ Maori New Zealand,” has fallen. When a gentleman, writing here—and who ng ht, at least, to know better, —can lend the sanction of his name to the propagation of statements so full of injustice, we can hardly be surprised at the tone of the Missionary journal. We trust, however, that the editor will endeavour to redress the wrong which he has inflicted, and that “ the Church Missionaries in “this part of the island will not be slow to “point out his error.”