HON. MR STOUT AND NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 75, 7 April 1885, Page 2

HON. MR STOUT AND NATIVE AFFAIRS.

The übiquitous Sydney Taiwhunga f& on the Hon. Premier at the Albert W>. this morning, and presented, to m »'■ address signed by Mite Hapa^l*?, as members of the "Maori SeU-pw^ ; Society." The address begins by.»«: that the signatories believe that.tlsfffigf. people have been benefited ty.T H. in the administration of natN •»&, It goes on to ask for an ao|g«W^] Maoris self-government, and "WSj* Stout will attend the great .».«»»»;, at Waitangi on the 28rd inst. ™Sfoy ing powers are asked for in the- . JjSjgjJ:;. self-government" :-To e»»W^£p/; principal chiefs to sign M»^ mS. their union ; to give the Maoris W^; finance in proportion to their nuOSV enable the Maoris to give ™Vl*2*f tention to sanitary objects WaJSS' provemeiits; to make it their mterWWJj.; mote economy and *• toj"" WgJ^'j': to give to the Maoris all thßJ»ffi ;|k) j., can healthily exercise; to Maoris to make their own railways on j, own different, districts to '?JLW-■ really required, but to ? u? rf Si«N; ways for which the districts ateW'^f to make sacrifices; to give ®*Jr d -&. whole management and Q° nt™'JL Ji,, own lands and properties; M ,£,,(«■ Maoris a borrowing powei• w M, lands and properties; to8?™T«r0»»; tho whole power of managffl^&h aflalre, and of making t^«fJS> eivo them the whole system orwrj ■# Bridges in the country " **%*#, railways; and, in fact, to bJg^'SJ concerted objects the Wj-^jpv ways, tramways, roads, a,.,m on their own territory. > uc ti ,{ » concludes .with a ,^ u t TfhrWr Northern native be called to '»^ Home, and points out that«*J^fc,- 1 Maori electoral #^^£3®* Mr Stout replied that toJgStf I Maoris could have the> »^ mf>W 1 own territory in the *•*s£*»;■ means of the native »«,» did not think be W^ijs^ to attend the »"" £4 t» tho Bay of Islands on/ tt«^Jrt* rreference to Taiwbanga's fijfcfo ing increased power to tt°S«#> tee,, he «*1 le "^«ftßlS»*? the proposals. He could not fcM. j1 answer with referent {? ™S*#i: Northern native to the bP!**<&#&.■ flj had consulted his colleagnes. , then withdrew, promising nt^ftMH Saturday or Sunday. ■