RACES OF NEW ZEALAND.

Auckland Examiner, Volume IV, Issue 271, 9 June 1860, Page 3

RACES OF NEW ZEALAND.

[From “ The Story of New Zealand.”]. In all conquests, whether by the mind or the sword, which h\ve terminated in good to the weaker party, the'-conquerors have invariably amalgamated with the conquered; and this is most necessary among the New Zealanders, as their rapid decrease is much aggravated by breeding in and in. It is, therefore, satisfactory to find that Caucasian blood already flows in the veins of two thousand of the native population. The lake Rev. Mr. Lawry, the venerable superintendent of the Wesleyan missions in the South Seas, states that—the New Zealanders are melting away ; but, he observes, they are not lost, they are merging into ano!her and a better class. In this process there lacketh not sin, but Providence will over-rule this, and bring forth a fine new race of civilised mixed people, which shall be better for the world, better for the Church, and better for the new race. A large proportion of these half-castes are New Zealanders in language and manners, and they are singularly free from scrofula, the diseased taint in the Maori blood. Physically thy are a noble and beautiful race, and they only require education to develop the force and power of their minds- In the third generation the nut-brown skin, the black eye, and tbe rsven hair generally disappear. The amalgamation is solely due to European men and Maori women, only five European women having had ch.ldren by Maori men. Such, however* is the custom in all countries where two races came together in different degrees of civilisation; the Franks in Gaul and the Normans in England wedded the daughters of the conquered, but few of the daughters of the invaders condescended to merge into the class of the vanquished. As the Anglo-Saxon settlers in New Zealand must soon outnum; her the aborigines, the features of the Maor l race will disappear from among the half-castes although traces of their blood will occasionally he seen in families after many generations. Haughty Spaniards in South America boast of their descent from the Incas; two of Montezuma's children founded noble Spanish houses; Garcilaso the historian’s epitaph at Cordova records that his mother was sister to

the late native Emperor of Peru ; and respectable Virginian families ara proud in tracing a connection with the ancient rulers of the country. The same feeling, in a very few generations, will develop itself in New Zealand, and settlers will yet boast of having in their veins the blood of Potatou, Rauparaha, Heke, Walker Nene, Rangihaetaa, Kawiti, and other Maori warriors.