"BRITISH SUBJECTS."

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3643, 23 March 1869, Page 5

"BRITISH SUBJECTS."

" The protection of the Queeu's subjects from personal wrong 18 a duty in whioh the Government has no choice."— Saturday Itevitw, November 2, 1861 (in | an artiol* entitled " England and America "). T* til* Editor of th« Daily Socxhekn Caoss, Sir,— Thui wrot* the Saturday fieviewin 1861, and, as that pap«r i« quoted a great deal as an authority, I hare a right to use it in the tame way. It does not uay the protection of the Queen's subjects in England, Scotland, Ireland, India, America, Abyi* Kioia, o? New Zealand, bat, "The Queen's subjeots;" and bere tr« arc in a Britiih colony, aye, a pat colony in which the mother country can try a great experiment of subduing the native race to British supremacy without first conquering them, and yet we British subject* are to be left to tbe mercy of the native oarbarians, who murder our men, women, and children, aye, iaf»nts, with iuaponity, and wo are told, " Well, if you want soldiers, you must pay for them. We let out our soldiers at £40 a bead." Is this giving protection to the Queen's subjects? It is very much like the nun who said, "Give me sixpence, andfyou nhall nee my show for nothing." Where is the hou«aty of the Aborigines Protection Bociety now, that they do not rais* their voice* again*t their pet aborigines being Allowed to fall back into canuibaliem, and actually to cook and eat the Q'teen's subject?, and yet to remain, unpunished} C*n a great couutry lik-i England t*ke huff because one of the colonial Minister* propounded a silly iociklled aelf-reliant policy^ When we had soldiers the War wa» never carried on in earuest, but all itt high. »uth»rity »t loggerheads, the Governor Against the obminwudtsr of the forces, and both attimeaat loggerheads with the Ministry. A Napier, with full authority to act, in six month* would have finished the war. fiat tbe «o!diers went bom* and hit their work undone. So much for " Brifcuh protection of the Qawo'f mbjeots/^l *«, fto,, Mauku, M*roh 13, 186& J. Ointi.