OFFICIAL RETURN OF MAORIS WHO HAVE SURRENDERED.

New Zealander, Volume XX, Issue 2147, 17 June 1864, Page 3

OFFICIAL RETURN OF MAORIS WHO HAVE SURRENDERED.

(From the N.Z. Gazette, of Jane 14.) Return of all Re el Natives who have subscribed to Declaration of Allegiance and delivered up arms, from sth February to 31st May, 1864. THAMES DISTRICT. Hakiaha Te Kahn, Te Kawakawa, Taupo, double gun, cartouch box and 13 cartridges, Feb. 18 Pumipi Te Parerewa, Waiau, Coromandel, double percussion gun, March 19 Hori Pokai, Pukorokoro, long-handled tomahawk, April 20 Ngakete, Pukorokoro and Kaiaua, a taiaha spear Ngatai, Pukorokoro and Kaiaua, no arms Hohepa Te Ruinga, Pukorokoro and Kaiaua, musket, cartouch box, and 3 cartridges Wiremu Paitahi, Mokomoko and Pukorokoro, no arms Wiremu Koroi. Mokomoko and Pukorokoro, a musket Taua, Hauarahi, gun, cartouch box, and 17 cartridge i Hoatii Te Araroa, Kerepehi, Piako, a paihaka spear Karipa Ngahoka, Kerepehi, Piako, single fowlingpiece Maioha, Waiheke, a taiaha spear Timed Turakawa, Waiheke, a musket Ngarina, Waiheke, a musket Ngarnuka, Hauarahi, a gun and cartouch box Rewete Tokohaihai, Hauarahi, a musket Wiremu Waitangi, Wairoa, double gun, cartouch box and 6 cartridges Tu Karam tine, Tahitu, gun, cartouch box and 9 cartridges. Renata Tarewha, Kauaeranga, musket, cartouch box, and 8 cartridges. Maihi Mokogohi, Kauaeranga. gun and 6 catridges Hoani te Whakanoanoa, Kauaeranga, a musket Watene zeKoau, Kauaeranga. musket, cartouch box, and 8 cartridges Pene, Kauaeranga, a musket Hoimana, Kauaeranga, a musket and 1 cartridge Taraati Kotahi, Waiau, Coromandel, musket, cartouch box, and 4 cartridges Honatana, Waiau, Coromandel, a musket Nepia te Kaikai, Waiau, Coromandel, musket, cartouch box and 4 cartridges Ihakara te Pohuhu, Waiau, Coromandel, musket, cartouch box, and 3 cartridges Hori Peruperu, Waiau, Coromandel, paihaka spear Pehiraana Niho, Kauaeranga. delivered cutter Snowflake Tamati Waka, Kauaeranga, gun and 8 cartridges Tutuki, Kauaeranga, musket and 2 cartridges Wikiriwi Paiiti, Manaia, nr. Coromandel, a musket Ngarua Horoiwi, Manaia, nr. Coromandel, pistol and powderflask Poihakene Taipuru, Manaia, nr. Coromandel, musket tomahawk, and one cartridge Atama te Meko, Waiotnuomu, musket, cartouch box, and 7 catridges Tukukino, Opuheke, musket, cartouch box, and 13 cartridges Horopapera te Opuheke, musket, cartouch and 4 cartridges Koroneho, Opuheke. a tomahawk Hireni Te Riripo, Waiomuomu, musket, cartouch box, and 9 cartridges Pene Tornailnke, Manaia, near Coromandel, musket, cartouch box, and 5 cartridges Ihaka Te Tawh', Peria, gun and whalebone club WAIDKU DISTRICT. Penehamine Ngaknti, Wainku, no arms, March 11 Wereana Poike, Waiuku, no arms Rawiri Tuhewa, Waiuku, single flint Tower musket, March 14 Te Kepa Te Wao, Waiuku, Tower flint musket, empty pouch, one tomahawk Pirimona Te Rangi, Waiuku, one tomahawk, March 15 Hori Tau, Waiuku, one gun Karena Te Rangi, Waiuku, one tomahawk LOWER WAIKATO. Te Harawera Whakataha, Taupari, no arms, Feb. 15 Poihi Nini, Taupari, no arms Tupaea Nini, Taupari, no arms Broughton Te Herepounarnu, Taupari, no arms Mohe Toheriri, Taupari, no arms. Feb. 16 Te Rata Patiti, Te Taroa, double flint gun, cartouch

box, March 14 Taraiti, Tupekerunga. doub’e flint gun, pouch full ot

cartridges Ihaka Ruapapaka, Waihekura, single percussion

gun Karena, Tupekcrunga, no arms Hohua Kino, Tupekerunga. a tomahawk, 15 April Tnari, Kerei, Noa tePuia, Hone Waikaie, Haimana te Oko, Tapekerunga, 2 flint muskets, 2 cartouch boxs, each containing 6 cartridges, 2 tomahawks, 1 bill-hook, April 22 Warena Puhi, Lower Waikato, no arms, April 28 Watere Tutarea, i ower Waikato, no arms Huki, Lower Waikato, I tomahawk Kiti Niti, Lower Waikato, one tomahawk Niko Kiwani, Lower Waikato, 1 tomahawk Te Whakahau, Lower Waikato, 1 patiti Paraone, Lower Waikato.no arms Hohahia Terewai, Lower Waikato, gun and cartouch box Eparara, Lower Waikato, a koikoi Nuitone, Lower Waikato, a tomahawk Arapiu Tou Tukeka, Lower Waikato, a tomahawk Matenga Parnea, Lower Waikato, a gun Hemi Pai, Lower Waikato, no arms Kawiri Motutarata, Lower Waikato, no arms, May 2 Hunia Pae, Lower Waikato, no arms Tara Mainuku. Lower Waikato, no arras Tamati Paki, Lower Waikato, no arms Rehana Paki, Lower Waikato, no arras Rena Porokoroheke, Lower Waikato, no arms Paora Porutu, Lower Waikato, no arms Katipa, Lower Waikato, no arms Eruera te mate Whitu, Lower Waikato, no arms Wetene Miruku, Lower Waikato, no arms

UPPER WAIKATO. Two old men. R.mgiaohia, no arms, March 3 Ivngi Wai Kawau, Petera, Kerei, Wi Taimoni, Koninia, Ruihana, Upper Waipa, six stand of arms and one tomahawk, April 21 Pora Tuhiwai, Upper Waipa, no arms, May 2 Paora Puni, Upper Waipa, no arms Karanaraa Ngahuku, Upper Waipa, no arms Hone Haki, Upper Waipa. no arms. RAGLAN DISTRICT. Hira Kerei, Aotea. no arms, Feb. 13 Rawiri. Tupekerunga, no arms Iraia, Tupekerunga, no arms , Te Urupa, Pukekawa, no arras Renata, Pukekawa, a gun, Feb. 17 Reihana Takiwhitu, Pukekawa. flint musket Anarn Ngaiwi, Pukekawa, flint musket and empty cartonch box Aihe Te Tana, Kawhia, no arras Erueti, Kawhia, no arms Ra ata, Kawhia, no arms Aperahama, Kawhia, no arms Te Kokena, Kawhia, no arms Matini, Kawhia, no arms Amnkiii, Kawhia. no arms Te Wi Takataro, Kawhia, no arms Rawiri, Kawhia, no arms Wiremu, Kawhia, no arms Tnkarei, Kawhia, no arms Hori Wataruhi, Aotea, single flint gnn and amunition, March 14 Hone Rihari, Aotea. single flint gun and ammunition Meta Hohua, Aoeta, single percussion gun and animation AporoTe Roto, Kawhia, flint musket, April 15 Taniora Te Ngarahn, Kawhia, flint ransket Timoti Tc Haikihi, Kawhia, flint musket Hone Tipn, Kawhia, flint musket Molii Tame Paka, Kawhia, flint musket Hakopa Kiri, Kawhia, single percussion gnn Tamakawe Nuifone, Kawhia, flint gun, April 25 Raka Henara, Kawhia, flint gun Paora Tarapatiki. Kawhia, no arms, May 2 Ra iri Rakiawa, Kawhia, no arras Matena Nuitone, Kawhia, rifle and ammunition, May 18 Kipa Atarla, Kawhia, single flint gun and cartonch box, May 28. CENTRAL WHANQANDI. Paraone, Whanganni, one gnn, May 2. MANAWATU DISTRICT. Te Watihi Herekinhu, Monawatu, one gnn, February 5 Wiremu Te Raorao, Horowhenua, no arms, April 23 Ihaia Taneki, Horowhenua, no arms Marene, Pakauera, Horowhenua, no arras Te Kerehi Tomo, Horowhenua, no arms Ngariki. Horowhenua, no arms. Ngakanga, Horowhenua, no arms, April 23 Motntohe, Horowhenua, no arms, April 30 Te Hapimana Tohu, Horowhenua, no arms Te Warena Mitiwahu, Horowhenua, no arms Te Raorao, Horowhenua, no arras Anaru Tuhinga, Horowhenua, no arms Te Pioka, Horowhenua, no arms Hetariki Matao, Horowhenua, no arms Hetaraka Motntohe, Horowhenua.no arms Moihi Rakuraku, Horowhenua, no arms Noa Tawhati, Horowhenua, no arms Winara Te Raorao, Horowhenua, no arms Tc Manihera Te Mata, Horowhenua, no arras Te Waitere Kakura, Horowhenua, no arms Hopa Te Piki, Horowhenua, no arms Heta Te Whata, Horowhenua, no arms

OUR PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL LOAN. (From the Nelson Colonist, June 13). More than twelve months ago we wrote of the dangers to our provincial institutions, and to our health and stability as a colony, existing in the debts which the majority of the Provinces and the General Government were heaping on the herd of the colonists. This was prior to the breaking out of the present war, which has hastened by at least a generation the time when by natural means (as Darwin says—“natural selection”—“ the weakest to the wall” —the extinction of the Maoris will be effected. It was before the gigantic system of loans conceived and carried out by several of the Provinces, were thrown into the market, and before those recently resolved on by the General Government, had together raised the debt of a colony all but destitute o r manufactures, and with comparatively few exports, to, per head of population, double that of Great Britain, the wealthiest country in the world. While the m ney is being spent—(and most of it is spent before it is received, so that even the deprecatory maxim of “ light come light go ” is too good to be applied)—many people do not seem to look to the enl or are careless of it. The almost limitless powers of borrowing which have been given to tho Provinces, or been taken by them, without check by the Governor of the Colony, and the results of the exercise of those powers are now having the attention of some of the better conducted newspapers of the Southern Island. While the war expenditure is going on in the North Island, it would, we are sorry to say, be folly to expect the North Island people to think much of the debt which permitted that expenditure and is now clinging to the Colony. The impatience towards anything that impedes rapid headlong progress in Colonial societies, throws a sanguine light over everything, and the most remote and unlikely possibilities are deemed easily accessible; while the advocates of caution, and careful and moderate advancement’aro for a time deemed obstacles and impediments; until, when perhaps too late, the unerring coarse of events proves the error of the first proceeding. We see how Southland has suffered, and is suffering by reason of wild extravagance, and an expenditure from which no return w.is possible for many years to come, if over. What is true of Southland is true of the whole Colony of New Zealand, whose heavy debt, Provincial and General, is beginning to tell on the character of our credit in the money market at home. This is particularly true of Provincial Securities, and the unmarketable con lition of the debentures of Otago and Canterbury, which ought to be the most prosperous and trustworthy Provinces of the Colony, exemplify the evil effects of this reckless system. Had the wise regulations respecting Provincial borrowing, laid down by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1857, repeated by qhe RichmondStaffbrd ministry in 1860, and embodied in resolutions laid before the House of Assembly, been strictly adhered to, the credit of the Colony would have remained stable, and its future would have shown no gathering clouds of that financial difficulty which is the sure follower of reckless borrowing and its concomitant reckless expenditure. In his address to the Electors of Nelson, in October last, Mr. Stafford spoke strongly of the dangers of our debt; showing how at first a thoughtful man disliked the feeling of indebtedness. But, he added—- “ But it is with this as with ou r vices—what startles us when first committed sits lightly on our consciences after some practice. When people have got over the first experience of being in debt, they become callous about it ; and communities, still more than individuals, are proverbially ready to do what a single individual would not dare. Finally, it appears not only a pleasant, but a normal state of things, to live on borrowed money.” This, to a great extent, is what New Zealand has been doing for some years - living on borrowed money, and our punishment will surely come. Mr. Stafford farther said that the limit of a State debt “ should be carefully guarded,”— “ And that limit should be such that in a period of monetary panic or depression-which arrives to all countries in turn —the existing resources would alwavs provide for the interest of the debt, and thus maintain the public faith of the country. It will not do to trustin a crisis, to dormant resources, if a. country would surely preserve its reputation for good faith.” Where are the actual productive resources of New Zealand which shall meet the demands of our creditors and maintain our reputation for good faith ? Are they to be met with in such financial embarrassment as Canterbury, Southland, and Otago exhibit at the present moment ? Or, as regards the General Debt of the colony, is the military settler’s scheme in the North Island by any means equal to meet a proportionate amount of the interest on the debt which the war has produced ? It '8 scarcely possible to answer these questions in the affirmative. On the subject of borrowing, and the duty of the Governor with respect to the passing of Provincial Loans, the Secretary for the Colonies wrote to his Excellency so far back as 1857. pointing out the necessity of restraining the borrowing powers of the Provinces, lest the exercise of these should affect the security on the Colonial revenue given to the Home Government, when it guaranteed the New Zealand Loan of that year. In that dispatch the following sentences occur ;

“ I have therefore to instruct yon, in exercise of the powers vested in you by the Constitution Act, to require that all Bills of Provincial Legislatures for the purpose of raising monies by loan shall be reserved for your assent; not to give such assent in any case unless either the amount is inconsiderable, and the purpose temporary, or the exigency appears to you so great as to render departure from this rule essential for the public convenience: and if ever Loans to any serious amount should appear to be required by a Province, to require that the Legislature should {present to you resolutions to that effect, in order that you may confer with her Majesty’s Government previously to the introduction of any Bill for the purpose.” According to this extract it appears that the Governor was required to confer directly with the Home Government before even permitting the introduction of a large Provincial Loan Bill. The practical evasion of this latter rule has led to the great borrowing which the last two or three years have witnessed. The “ responsibility”nndertaken by the Assembly did notreinove the force of this arrangement, which properly bound the Governor to act in accordance with these special ins'rnctions. The same right of guarding its own interests, existed in the Home Government after Ministerial responsibility wag undertaken as before; and the provisions of the despatch above quoted remained as binding as before. Yet they have been entirely set aside, and the ordinary revenues of the provinces are still being pledged for provincial debts, without any previous communication between the Governor and the Imperial Government, although an expressed opinion was given by the Ministry in Angnst, 1861, “ That no further loans ought to be contracted by any Provincial Legislature upon the security of the ordinary revenue of the provinces.” We do not doubt that the new Secretary for the Colonies, seeing the amount of unsaleable provincial debentures now in the home market, will shortly refer to the imperative but forgotten instructions of 1857, and put a veto on further borrowing of the kind; for we may rest assured that a statesman like Mr. Cardwell will see but too clearly the dangers which surround a colony like New Zealand, which with a population of under 120,000 settlers, has, including the late war loan, a debt, Provincial and General, exceeding six millions sterling, bearing an interest of nearly #420,000 per annum. These figures ought to be sufficient to make any one. even the more reckless of our borrowers, pause and try, if possible, to avert from the whole colony that financial fate which its own monetary madness has brought upon the province of Southland.