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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1084, 17 September 1869, Page 3

Next ov Kin to Loud CLY->E ; -—At the present moment a tiller of the soil is about to proceed to Europe to enforce his claim as next of kin to the late Lord Clyde, better known as Sir Colin Campbell. M'Liver, the freo selector on Boneo, in the district of Tootgarook, who for some time has been content to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, bursts suddenly upon us as the heir presumptive to the son of Mr. John M'Liver, of Glasgow, and who entered the army as Ensign Campbell in 1808, and who in 1858 was created a peer by the title of Lord Clyde. From what we hear it seems probable that the Australian M'Liver, who until now has been satisfied with the benefits conferred upon him under the 42nd clause of the Land Act, will be able to substantiate his claim to the accumulated prize-money of the hero of Chillian-wallah, Alma, and Lucknow. — Melbourne Hei'ald.

A Pbo-Consul fob New Zealand. -rThe Pall Mall Gazette advises a proconsul for New Zealand. Not a bad notion. The major part of that fertile territory is at peace, and the unruly natives could be perhaps crushed out by some energetic autocrat. I regard the occupation of New Zealand by the British as a gross swindle from beginning to end. We had no more right to the land of the Maories than I have to the collection of gem-stones in Mr. Crisp's window. The miserable excuse of a bead-and-blanket, tinpot, and musket-barrel bargain with some poor devil of a chief is no excuse. But, having got the land, established ourselves there, and built churches and public-houses, and so on, we would be fools not to use our best endeavors to keep what we have thus gained. To do this in peace, the Maories must be exterminated. There is no other course, for the fellows are impudent and self-assertive. To make treaties and talk bunkum to them is perfeotly useless ; they must be stamped out and utterly annihilated. If England will send out a sensible man with a genius for slaughter, New Zealand should be grateful. Free fire and sword for six months, and a " smdkingout" or two, would speedily put matters to rights. — The Peripatetic Philosopher, '■ in the Australasian. »

Pbepaeingfob the Pbess. — Taking off one's glove to say good-bye to one's beloved.