Answers to Correspondents.

Auckland Examiner, Volume IV, Issue 273, 16 June 1860, Page 2

Answers to Correspondents.

Enquirer— is well met by Viator, a correspondent of the Taranaki News, who tells us —“Far 100 much has been said about the claims of chiefs to the predominant suzerainty in this country. Walker Nene no doubt has a certain right, though he never was in person (surrounded by his staff and army) nearer this region than 40 miles, and went south by the back of Mount Egmont. If the newspaper writers would carry their researches into the ancient history of this island they would find [[that Hone Heki was the real overrunner, and so far conqueror, of this part of the country. But after all this reference of rights of ownership by conquest during the era of utter barbarism among the Maories is all ‘ bosh.’ Go back in English history to the period of the raids of the Picts and Scots, or the local wars during the period pribr and upto the extinction of the Saxon Heptarchy, and you will find almost an exact parallel with the past and present condition of the natives. Our generation has to act the part of theearly Roman invaders of Britain,hamperd, however, by hierarchical ambition, and choked by th'e'foul air of Exeter Hall. If the Maori race is to be saved from extinction we have to crush to nothingness all those primitive rights which owe their existence solely to barbaric laws, by~chiefs whose might alone constituted their right, and whose influence over their followers arose from personal qualities or superstition. And in this 1 am borne out by a missionary, who not long ago told me that the great misfortune of the Maories was, that they were not conquered in the first instance. The Romans had to deal with pugnacious, cunning tribes in Britain ; they called them treacherous and murderous, as we are now calling the Maories. As the Homans in England, so we in New Zealand must compel submission to civilized laws, and drive roads through almost impenetrable forest sword in one hand and the axe in the other. As in England we find traces of a Roman camp, in face of a British camp, with summer head quarters and winter head quarters placed in convenient positions, so, in future years, traces of the present struggle must be found in the remains of English camps in the face of Maori pahs throughout the country, with military mainroads leading to summer and winter head quarters throughout the country, and a long-headed comnyfinder will

plaee IhcnUfin suchpositions that they may become here, as they did in England, the germs of towns.. If it is asked how is this to be done? I reply, do as the Roman commanded Rd. If Colonel Gold docs not like, or cannot follow the example of the Roman benefactors of Britain, I earnestly entreat him to do as his brother in arms, General Wade, did in the Highlands of Scotland, when he put down all possibili'y of future wars of the Pretenders, and I will, at my own expense, put up a similar memorial to him as that which still exists at the head of Glencoe to the praise of General Wade, and with a similar Irish bull in the inscription into, the bargain.