THE NATIVE REPRESENTATIVES.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 86, 24 August 1868, Page 203

THE NATIVE REPRESENTATIVES.

’ Rowing is irom the" ■Wellington correspondent of .the Nelson Examiner The House resumed at nine pm., [4th • ■ d then commenced the second aet of the'faree entitled “ Native E ; epreThe honorable member for thc Electoral Distriot (give bimhistitleinfull)--Tareha J Eßq., stepped forward., and said something, which Mr Nf‘tean told us meant that he wanted an :Wte?preter. '.-Hr Puckey was eoori in at f bndancei J and the hpnorable member commenced by stating that he felt ; inueh pleased at the. manner in which business was conducted in the Assembly, that it showed jthat the chiefs' of which it was composed had much wisdom,- &o. Honorable members appeared to be highly flattered. A : good deal more was saidby him, the interpreter, every now and then when the speaker ceased .in order to have hiq words translated, saying, “He only says the « & me thing over again.*.’ But now be tells '• us -he is going to let us know; how- we are yrohg iu our. dealings with the natives. Members prick up their ears, lean forward, in;order that they .may not lose one •_ word <>f the speech that is to show a royal road out of: the .native difficulty,- and hear—- ■' this-r—“ Look here, the gakeTim-f comes to • perty is driven into it and I must pay befdre I can get I cair gbt it out. ]if I see this • 'Athink I ! t6o will put xip a pound on. my “Bd~and drive the European’9 ; cattle into ■ ft*'-,-, f do:.sp, and, then I am taken to pqurt { this is,ho w the grievance lights on fhe Maori.” 'Here, then, wasya short cut cutof; all ■ our,; troubles— here, the grand -•solution' of the native, difficulty.: The abo* ... :|ition;of the jgoumd is-the sovereign remedy . - that is. to. .quell; the present disturbances. . What fools must we have been mot to have . thought of this before ? \ Who shall say •lhat we have not already reaped-the benefit ; pf ;admittinginatives into our Parliament ? thunders. of applause Jfareha S-sits v-and is replaced by MetejKingi, who, ; A?*??: r preter) thus Commences bis address“ Salutations to ybu all-j.inay . v’you:"; all?-live'- for, ever !>”: (“Amen! ’’• a CjacrbS Wilson.) : ■ S^hoTia. . came here I was a -; . .miuuteV to'suryeyihg, ‘ of * ‘ : tne Honorable the! Speaker, -the other ,to obsierving MrGeorgel&raham—- . ;.%®CP ideb; being£ I fancy, was'too oldlarid tough , 'tb afford -a pleasant mesilj but no doubt 'WOtud,': tifc:' Beryed in- the sambfmanner as

= unfortunate - Trooper Smith, lately ~ atea; make excellent soup.' .I,' observations, the converted cannibal. went on to take his ;|»hare:in' the tliQ <juea<iort''before ;the>ho&ei VtvizV That ?an fimpression ..P®iouj.that;hiß; ExceUehcy’s i^vernment' prOjposei! fo'j effeet^orgame changes in - the < • 'institutions :o£ the Colony,” &c;' Thaveno ] . ! { buthisviewßonthesub- ] j®°t were ;extremely lacid, ibut-Imuat con- ■ 'fess that I had not the patiencei-to r emain them, 8o I left|the houae, thinking. that Ihadnever witnessed a more ; i 3 ®) the generosity (not to say ■ v gullibility ) cjf theAnglo-Saxonraee than was their> paying , four for,three; mouths,, -to ; ■; i ; !>|rome':ian®^Bißt-th.em : inmakingthe ■ 'laws '' l •A^glb'Saxohib) ■’ Y; ;;'^s[e«fj;to^*be s^ governed;?i-Mir ? Vogelapoke ■ ' richytreat‘d i .had ; r just .too} muoh;for:. you to > vhoule oneofthe* best ; jnithe house, j.; . _ . , j >M-?Tsf^^S;^b^b^ng%^rareha*B:''_sp^eph^.as;.i^o- - (Mr'Puckey interpreting)'; L^vlf^^^^W*®“^p}in's;hb‘preß«nibd;uf#faiß

vMabrisA; : iKaSci PAS®S^-?^rw9^apa®g:in ; yiii^,'' r is conducteßjV'and the laws .fchat are' ini? riate^particultrlyr.those 1 for- mEtking roads -Jjiwsp.' hayd therefore men amongsji; you fco speak. ; The thoughts P-K people are not the same .as the tho\ights of the Europeans. : They werb btsidfe; each other from the beginning. Yob are, th® >.nien who: have wisdom. Having 9^®r Btauding,:you 8 tauding,:you do thait which is good. Therefore/,we have no occasion to be anx'is' to"; you,' though evil life 9®P re y°U) .continue to do good. Evil oaih be always Overcome. This is nil -f b f° say .at ; present. T shall. speaki.of i'hings hereafter* -Some .things, are being done* that are, clear;; other , things a £ e being done at iny place 1 which are not clear. There are :sptne things which have been done by.you pakehas which I do not look favorably upon. One of: them is the Native Bands Court., Persons, who., are entitled to the land are nbt. ihcluded in .the Crown Grant; and other persons who have no title . are included in the Crown Gt-rant. Thus. persons, without right be®ome possessed; of ] the,-land of others. I as k you the Assembly to look into this matter, for Tam not with it. ; I will now speak of ; other.matters which are being carried on;. I a pound that ia in Napier (laughter.),, My, property teas been. put into the pound—(laughter)—and sold (laughter); therefore I propose; tq Europeans that I have - a pound to myself; (Loud laughter.) When I wanted a pound I ,was. taken, to - the ; Court. (A laugh;). Therefore I say to, you, when you make.a law make it for the Maori as well as for yourself. (Cheers.) It is ” laid down m Scripture as well as by man, that there should be the one Jaw for both of us, fT leave you to consider this, matter. (Cheers^