might be shot on each side and expense of thousands would be entailed by the simple moving of the troops to the scene of action combinations of the disaffected of various tribes would be formed against the Govt., the vagrant tribe who committed the theft would attain a higher standing and position than ever among their own race if troops were sent against them, ageneral conflagration throughout the Island might easily be kindled but not so easily exinguished, and the consequences to the country of a native war would check its immigration and material progress for years to come, all this and much more has been avoided by the course pursued by the Govt. which was far from being of a negative or compromising character while pursuing the only means by which this long pending question could be brought to a termination.