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New Zealander, Volume XXII, Issue 2431, 17 May 1865, Page 3

*lt would well requite the mother country to pay the half of a handsome salary to a first class Governor for such a distant, such an exceptional, colony as New Zealand. But to secure the priceless advantage of a real Double Government in New Zealand, in the person of an A 1. Governor, emancipated from thrall of Downing-street, New Zealand's infant House of Commons would, I should hope,giadly vote him j. salary of £BOOO or £IO,OOO a-year. Probably, some ever " non-content m mber for Can erbury might hazard the introduction of a Bill for keeping the salary to the old £3,000 —but, if he did, he would almost merit the fate ordained for " non-contents" by Charondas the Locrian—a Potentate so annoyed by the multiplicity of bills proposed by his St. Stephens that he ordained that any member introducing a bill, and 'failing to get it passed, should straightway be led out of the house and at once hanged. f Many years ago in our. naval skirmishes with the Americans, on the Canadinn akes, the colonial office, imagining that the lakes were salt, carefully encumbered our vesse's with " casks" for the stowage .of fresh water before leaving port I Doubtless, the colonial office is not so blind now but the ignorance, if ignorance it be, of the real state of things in distant colonies still manifested by this famous bureau, might' almost make the angels weep.—Mr. Card well is perhaps as hard working,: aa conscientious a colonial secretary as we have ever had, and me who knows aa much about colonies as any gentleman who will be likely to succeed him for the next few years, yet Mr. Card well's real insight into the true position of New Zealand affairs may be judged of by the following extract from Jone of his late despatches to Governor Grey. He is seeking to convince Sir George (who by the by is on the spot) that the rebels have been generally, and indeed everywhere, defeated; and aa an illustration of this hopeful, peoee-eoming, state of things, h> says—"At Taranaki the insurgents have been driven from their s rongholls, and New Plymouth so far relieved from danger that the Colonial Government have thought themselves justified in discontinuing the services of the Miliia."

Now, at Taranaki, the real state of things both before and when Mr. Card well wrote, was this The close siege which the savage had laid to the very village of New Plymouth, for more than a year, had so far been relieved that the settler's children could play before his door, or on the village green, without fear of bring tomahawked. But no real agricultural operations had been resumed, and no settler could venture two miles the church without peril to his life. The Taranaki Militia was enrolled, not to mind the children, but to inarch int» the interior: with her Majesty's troops, in sexroh of the enemy; and when Sir George Grey's orders came to ground arms and suspend the operations of the war, the Colonial Government very properly disbanded a portion of their colonial regiments until the soldiers should receive fresh orders to march. As to Mr. Card well's idea that we had, or have now, got the better of the rebels, it is simply an ntter, a mott dangerous delusion. As straws show the current, just glance, sir, at the "doings'' of our Waikato risoners, mentioned in the last pages of this amphleti

the South blond with to capital at Chri tehareh Kepeal the constitution of toef6re»er,nnd make it • Cu»ww Colour, Thrash the rebel* into complete submission. Giro tha eolooiata half the confiscated Uad for helping you, aid take the other half tor a crown demenac devoting rents and proceeds to a fund lor humaukirig and civilising the Maori, partly ic the maimer suggested in the note at page 58. Ooniinoe to give North New Zealand • prominent position in that «• Crown Guide Book'* for Emigrants described in the note at page 88, and by these means, in this way, posses* yourselves o. crown colony in the Pacific, fit dower lor a Wirwdsor Pr-ncees. , p „__ 1-eave the South Island as she is, and let her people take care that, in another decade or so, the North is not ahead of her in revenue, in population, in exports. Or,

! 3.—livide New Zealand into two communities, North Island and Sooth, and then leave 1 them and go their ways. Let the soft shepherds of the south pile tip the golden fleece, and un<fc*r the fig tree dance to pipe and tabor. The northern men- have hod a hardier training, and can both work and fight Their numbers are few; bat they would ask sympathetic blood in Australia * for help—righteously rebuking help with righteously confiscated landAustralia wood come at their prayer; and then, possibly, Extet Hall might sweat for her pets. In five years, or iu tea, the math island' men would federate' with thMr Australian brothers—may be, even with the emasculate Bhepherdsof the south—when, possibly, were the cloud compeller, himself, to descend on 1 them, say abbot the'year 85,' he might elect to stay in the- elysiutn he hod found—and, in some half-caste' Jaao, forget the peacock and the olympian."square." • Oi, ■-■-.- 4 —Bowing to Bxter Hall aft Manchester, , patch up some idle Suspension of Arm— and i hen, on the word of foolish philo-Maoriea,«nd of South Island setters tike the Sewed f and .Fitsgerald, shut your ey«e and declare you have won a ftucn. Quick, carry away your gallant redcoats f - find e ,r Wakeou*'it Governor for New Zealand—hat do no more. Content yoareelves with the gain of her trade —keep whole skin and full puree—and should that redoubtable animal, the British lion, ever' hap to hear from malicious foreigner*, or even from whelps of bis own, that he once sueaked out of a quarrel, provoked by his own servitors in- Downing-street, let him pooh pooh lot libellous truth, or roar it down. "»:

I have ranked these lout courses, Sir, in what I conceive to be their order of merit, o-v < ',

The first, I take it, is the great, imperial, manly, statesman-like,' " Bacon ian" course—. that which would be alike the most permanently beneficial to mother country, to colonists, to natives. I trust you. will elect to take it. If uot, take the second—if" hot the second, take . the third..' Don't take the Jourth. Spots on white scutcheons rhiy ne covered, arid yet be seen, snd this course would bespot yonr esieutcbeon past all scouring or : concealment. ,-" ~ _' ly would.,be cruel, too, to the Sorth Island settlers—ic would leave the Southerners (o hamper them. If the south wftUs to save her coppers and to wash her hands of the war, Jet her do it. Lukewar<u allies in a camp are best eliminated, Irpm It .'/,, 1 '. ,\ "' No one estimates the advantages New Zealand would securefrom Unity, more than my bumble self. *Bu>, If you, "elecV to taW course Nyv4—if,;virtually, you elect to leetfe us, leave us' DtTAtiir. .rather than leave us with the clog* ging company' b.f those who would dictate to us "tW conduct Wf a wvage war which destroys no homestead, which disturbs no dinner, even, ot theirs. . '"' •' V\ ' .'.

Permit rrie.in conclusion, Sir, to fay - that m addressing {his letter to you on the Texed iubfect ot'the «We* Zealand Wax," I hare been as moth actuated by a regard (orwhat l conoeiTe.to be the honor and interest ot the mother coantry, aud by an ear»en* w»h| to benefit the Maori, as by any dysirrß, grs"t as tii|i may be, to cplo; ist j > ybtfe, th«,»io k d|4? S! yoa,thifti J fr?e •Mjrbjft) uted too fffcftpp; you .must Pleaie Atribute it to my "Bt«h" fashion ( pt ! c^yinj||l»ck;,^la^-- : »rid poff^bly,, : in some my Lug inhalajfrtf ~ oar exhihratiogNe»',Zeal»ndair.,, , $-P?~-''\ ~ . ■■j^fiMny&e.,:;- 2 - h °* % '■;;'• ', ;. ' CHXttliBS HUKBTHOUBB. 18,'Chatcdt Crescent; rWjjent'B Park. r March lev 1805. ■ • • -'■*