THE New Zealand Herald. SPECTEMUR AGENDO. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH '2, is;i-i.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 94, 2 March 1864, Page 3

THE New Zealand Herald. SPECTEMUR AGENDO.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH '2, is;i-i.

" Give every nnn Uitue exr, but few thy voice: T*k>; ec.ch man's i'.en»urt!. but reserve tliy Judgment. TbiS ntJOVO a!'..—To thill" owiuclrbc true; And it mil-; f..1i0-.T, as the ni;;ht Urn <li«y. Tluni cims*. I'Ut then u« Huso 10 any umn."

Mit. .7. E. Gokst—one of the incidental provocatives to the renewal of native rebellion—li.ik written a ieiter In tho London 'J.'iMi'it. exi.'iis:iiory, if not hiudatciy, of his own nets and deeds, but aeciiKutory as well jw denunciatory of tho conduct of the coloniMfti ;ind tlic Government that imprudently tool; him into pny. The letter is a well written one. It is framed in the crafty spirit of a wrangler who hnrinjj taken v:\ik\\ he was un.ibje honestly to earn—who denouncing the shortcomings and incapacity (rcftl or fcuppoeitious) of others, seeks to veil his own transparent deficiencies, under a whirlwind of dust and clamour. Who is Mr. Gorst ? "What are his antecedents? "What his colonial experience? — ".That his tuperior claims and pretensions ti;sv of iue aativs

language, character, or disposition,—should have been piU-lilbrkc-rt over llie heads of ijuite as intelligent nn.l (eniuid bctlcr inibrmcJ men than hiniscH'r

Let iiM investigate these points, for tliuy ai-o absolutely necessary to a due knowledge of Mr. G-orst-'s assumptions, and to tlie right he arrogates to claim the assistam-cof the London Times as aught eWthnn a prejudiced and partisan exponent of the atlairn of New Zealand. JJr. O-or.sl arrived in Auckland by the ship ' Red Jacket,' Captain ]\ee<l. in 'April or Muy. LStiO. He i-anie accredited lo the rahid .I'hilo-Mam-i jiarty, who wore, then, by means of pamphlets, petitions, and palliatives straining their cv>.'ry oilbrt: to paralyse theltovcrnnient of the.i!:ty, and falsely seeking to decry a war of self-preservation, (theresult of I\] aori insolence and intolerance, begot of petting and pottering by the patrons ot Mr. Gorst.) as a war of oppression and extermination, in the fond hope of rendering it odious in the eyv of Exeter Hall, the Aborigines Protectorate Societies, the Canon Stoweils, and other equally judicious colonial Ilhnninati. Jfr. Goi'3t having been duly indoctrinated, took his departure for Melbourne, after n brief veiour, and in a few months returned a Benedict. TTow employed for some time thereafter, unlciW in perfecting his Philomflori education in the high normal school, nestling near "Resolution Point," and its congenial avenues, we have no means of knowing. Colonel Gore !Brown, the then war riihn , , it is to be supposed discovered no

■" prodii/tjits" capacity in Mr. Gorst; —at nil events, under his regime, Mr. Gorst was never a public functionary, great or small ;— indeed, it iv.-is not- until the peace policy of Colonel lirownc's successor and the marvels that polic-y was to eii'ect had been buzzed and blazed about, that the public were made aware that Mr. Gorst had been selected as one of the principal educational instruments for i-:in-yiiig that Ixarcy system into ctfect ill the obdurate hearr of "\Vaiknto, and that, t 00. with a command of men. money, and means, altogether regardless of expense—" a line largo establishment" created by Mr. Gorst, "and furnished in tirst-rate style,"—having iust fallen iiilo the -victorious haiuU of General Cameron.

As Solomon, in iho play of the Stranger, says—Mr. Gorst, like Mrs. Haller, fell upon Auckland ns a splash of ink docs upon a fair i-lifct lit'linger. .r'ew knew aught of him. They weve uvver siiil vho bc'.icvccl i;i him. | "What ivfH known was not td his advantage: for he was regarded as a iiasliy, fractious, supercilious individual, villi v.n overweening estimate of his oivn pre-eminent. ISuglish abilitv. and a corresponding doiiJTO of contempt for ail colonial intellect. fSncli wii? (lie man -\\lio (Iciiouiu-ing ihe exclusive cha?a< t<.r of foloniril i-oi-ii-ty. was pcrliajis one of ihf i::est i;aui;liiy CMiiri[ik'S cif exclusive presiMiiptiun lliat i.'\er vcgriiitcil rar.ong us. And yet iliis was the person, with no oilier than piiilo-uiaori " criiiDuiing" who w::.s dc::»::r;d to guide, to instruct:, and to si;bdi:e i!:o inicinporate and astute. "\Vaikr.to;. No man who knew the country and il:e ]-cople was lor one nioineiit doubtful of liiu result. Tl'.c " Lonely !Sp:;m>w.'' as Mr. (ioi:-i .stvii'd his pclitii-ai ins!riii-lion sheet, ci'ii-jj'j'd i.nd i-hiiTuped in vain. The instriulic.n \v;-..- al.uiniiiiiied. And the, iiii-truetor. ha'.ed. abi'.orriM 1 .. and linidlv kicked out of doors. \>t this, aeain, was the man. who under the s'.vk- of '• Fabius." (unless we are \ery in mil strove some two years' since :o mislead i!io Auckland public as he is now SL'L-kiiss; to deceive that of London, in the liiatti.T of the present conflict. This is the v,\;\u wl'.o " craiiiined' , ihmV as then, alt'cct:; ro insirucL rl:e Briti.-.h public, through the medium of thai all powerful instructor the London Tiwvx. on the subject" uf the niisdoings oi' iiie Is'c.v Zealand Government, iuJ'jrring his own uii];aralleled eNertionn u> make good their defects. This is tlie man 10 hymn 13k; pu'an.s of the Maorics who kicked him out audio disparage the. integrity of the Government rhat put him in; who romance? about New Zealand and its diiUculties —(greatly aggravaied by his actions) -—and puts fortii tiiat romance as a truthful narrative of the. cause of those disasters

v.-Jiifh luivc liroujjlit death ami ruin to the j i-olonists. and occasioned a hivisli expenditure of British blood and treiir-uiv. Mr. Gorst coimiH-iiccs his opistSi; with a ilopro- ! caioiy allusion to this cosily oxpciulituvc. but prudently avoids all mention oi' tUe costly outlay entailed by striving to force him, his dictatorial management, and worse than fallacious system upon a people resolved to resist. Mi , . Gorst Hneors at the failure of Colonel Browne lor his want of success in (he AVui-tai-a campaign, and lor conscntini; to the hollow truce that ceneiuded. it. But in Mr. Gorsl's statement of the catu;. he has merely given as much of the truth as he deemed convenient. He lias omitted all mention of the obstructions and opposition thrown in the way of Colonel Browne, (vacillating as th.it Governor may have been,) iu the ahape of p.impiilftH, letters, appeals, wailiiigs and lamentations c-aiciilated for the meridian of the- Strand, ami chirruped in every key oi the philo-maori gamut by the patrons and promoters of the " Lonely Sparrow." Unquestionably Colonel Browne committed a grievous rnislake when instead of iiiirliug Thompson, (" the pence wah-r" according to Mr. (hirst; but the murderer, by anticipation, of armed and unarmed men, women, and children, as self proclaimed in his letter io Arehdcticou Bro-.vn,) and his banditti from the heights oi" To -Arai. he permitted him to retire unmolested to recover strength, to hatch fresh treason, and decide the point, whether the Maori or the Pnkeha, v.-ei-c the strongest. It would be satisfactory to know whether Col. Browne made pnivc of his own free and unbiassed judgment, or whether he was constrained into such a course by the pertinacious train of sympathetic councillors who followed his Generals to and his Ministers into nariinment. Kicked himself from the "Waikut.., it is evidently gall and wormwood to Mr. Gorsf, to think that General Cameron has been able to establish himne) fin that country. "What will he uay when ho learua that the gallant chief is about to take up his winter quarters', not as a " Lonely Sparrow," but as a :i Conquering Hero.' - in the "line large establishment, furnished in first- rate style. ' by the discointitted and expatriated Mr. Gorst ? T.VO years have scarcely paused since the Colon is!« wei e sought to be paralyzed by tales oi' 'Maori invincibility, propagated by the 1 svicpathstic brotherhood of whom Mr. o-oret i if to iliUtti'ious a meaite?. " Saad & dosoa

of the bcßt English Generals, with 10.000 or 20,000 English troops," said theso worthies, "and Uie Maoris will know how to deal with them." England hay sent one English General and ten thousand men ; and these, scattered over an endless number of posts, have sufficed to do their work.

The fling at Sir G-eo. Grey, who , foolish'v gave him employment, and' the complacent way in which the butchery of Lieut. Tr.igel t. Dr. Hope, and tho escort is enunciated may be characterfulie, though hardly eoininendabk' in a mau of tho loi'ty spirit and magnanimous pretensions of Mi". Gorst. But.'as it was at. Waitara, so, it is hoped bv a clique, it may prove at YAiiknto. The "decision of the Governor may be brought to falter—Tho arm of tho (5-cncral may be placed in arrest— Court and Camn may perchance be palavered into another hollow" truce—and the Colony may be left to groan in anticipation of a future war without tho men or the means they now possess of rendering auy future war ah impossibility. If the letter of Mr. Gorst to tho Tint*-* means anything, it means that it is the treasonous wish of a few to enforce an erroneous impression against the colonists inthe English mind—<o reproduce the ?lalo idea that the. natives are meek and long suffering angels, and that the settlers arc grinding and grasping oppressors—that England would do well to withdraw her soldiery-— to close her pursestrings—and to turn acteaffiar to application for aid in raising a ]oi:n to colonisethe country in which welivo, to maintain the supremacy of the sovereign whose subjects we are. snd to live in peace and amity with a race,never to bo dominated bv " lonely sparrows," but only to be rescui'd and rendered prosperous, J by being , compelled to pay obedience to the law. The TCative Service, of which Mr. Gorst harps, has been the barrier to all this. It haa been the rock-a-head on which Isativo prosperity lniti suflV-red shipwreck. Kn reorganisation, even with a Gorst as the projector could lid; any Is a live Service into praet icable purpose- Underthe first protectorate it was a failure. Under its existing form it is an object of" universal suspicion and distrust— And in the prcntiec-hiinds oi' Mr. Gorat the Nativci manifested their appreciation of the "■ Clinli"' bv summary expulsion of himself and his " Army of Martyrs'.* from their desecrated soil, Instead of constructing a uia'ect of ?"ative gibberish, lutd the Government imitated the example of the J-'rench, and instructed tiie Aborigines in the language of the ruling power, the condition of iScv. - Zealand would be very diilerent from what it is. But wo are piogrosing towards that desirable end. "ft i? have a irank nnd fesu-less General —an able and determined Government—and a gallant soldiery. The. country i'h being opened. Jts latent rr-r-ources are daily disoiiveringtliemselvi's—colr.nists are Hocking in. The wanton and worthless mis-statements of such as Mr. Gorst will be taken for what they are worth. England and Englishmen are beginning to understand the true value of .New Zealand, not only as a tieid of exiensi\e and bentiicinl tmiuration. but as a military position of the last c<>n?ei|Ui.-nre to the British tmpire. They will, therefore. sii't t=uch lucubratiima :\s those of Mr. Gorst. in order that they may dete. minis how far t lie diFapj-ioinled pc-xomd iriinst.vnda the truritworthy patriotic of tiie narration.

Most probably (it tl:c time ive now write llii! lion, the Ci.ikiuii'.r Treasurer w ''nvoreaciicd lioiut , . ami, in the event of a snei'oskl'ul traiiNiietion ut" the Xcw Zeali'.ii'l loan, will have set ov. foot lire necessary measures fov the levyiiii; of a larue uuinber <if seniilnliitnry ■with tlieir wives and childi'fu. for in JNew Zeiilaml.

There is an univerwii! rulewliieii applies to nil (jusiue?!* trunsneti<inn, and *!ie work bofore 3IV. A\'ood in one practically of a business nauire, which is, that in proportion to tin.vnlii'j '.(' tin; article w>? have to e>:ch;t;;i.-c. do we feel the less wiiiim; to part with il except on favourable forms." This is just the case, with the trade we are )i»w about 1o make, ni't with the United Kingdom only, but with Germany juhl Belgium. We have a lai"4C and proi'uctive ten-norv 10 nivp awtiy, in return for winch we reijiure IIUIO more than the accej)tancc. ;md a mere tioininal military eerviee. The emigrant liitherto Ims liml lo provide the expenscH oi' liis own and liw family's and on arrival 111 this Province has. if he chone to settle on his free grant of forty aerert, been obliged to do eo at his own expense. Xt-'iiher, except in a few eases of a special location, has his settlement been assisted by any defined synLein. ImmigraiUb have been thinly ueattcrod over the face of the country in isolated positions, where they become entirely dciiendent on their own resources, in every respect, tor their advancement ;. neither hat* tin: general character of the lands been favourable for the.irsottlenient. Nevertheless, we believe, when industry and thrift have been located on an average quality of" soil, buceoKH has beoa always the result. The hardships have, howcvei , . lieen great, an undoubtedly they imtbfc bo where men of Kinall capital tiuderlttkc to turn the waste land of t he northern portions of this province into i'armn ; the lias been alow and Ldious, and many privations have had to be endured ere the settler has emerged from his lirst difficulties. This stage, however, once p:i.ised, and the result more than makes up for the hardships undergone ; the possession of a moderately sized freehold farm il) cultivation is nn independence, for life, and for a man's children after him. and is worthy of a lew years' toil and "privation.

But .'it the prcGont moment, emigration to the northern island of New Zealand lias assumed a very dilieroiit aspect. The paucity ol' good laud whereon to locale immigrants has been changed into a perfect cmhurrassc. den riches, and we have now soma five millions of the best lands of the Province from which to select. To r.iaiuhiin the future peace of (he country, to render impossible a return to the rebellion which has been raging in this island Cur the hifit four veare, it haa been deemed udvi.s.'ible to locate large bodies of fccttJers on ifie confiscated rehul territory. whose numbers shall awe the unruly tribes into the acceptance! of that law and order which they Inn e hitherto persistently refused to acknowledge and submit l<>, and an tins niiiat bo done at. once, and done thoroughly, the most liberal terms have been offered to intending volunteers—a. free- passage, a free grant of fifty acres of good country laud, mid j/.n acre allotment iu the central village of each aett'einont, and free, rations during the ftret year of thoir settlement. From the date of iaeii arvivai ti.e mes -will bs iu re»

ceipt oi two shillings and sixpence per dav, besides rations and clothes, and the families wiH be pvovided with house room and rations, and when settled on their lands they will be placed not in isolated positions, where to cue lona Jt(k settler there are twenty absentees but in regular settlements—ibe'veiT f;tct of which will give at once to the land they occupy a value which it takes yearn to impart under the ordinary method'of/iiling im which any country disfYiet undergoes. when we add to these advamnges the fact, that the country through which they will be lo.ated is opened up by the iinuat fresh water rivers of Xev,- Zealand, ollering a ready carriage of their produce to the porta on either coast, that, a railroad from Auckland to the "Waikato is already being comnieni:ed. that tho lands are some of them the richest, the country tho most beautiful, and the climate all that the heart of man could desire, we say no more than every one here well knows. Such beiii"; the cat,e, wo think then that privileges sucn as theue should not be lightly scrambled away amongst the first applicants who ofTer. 'A. strict and rigid examination, into tho value to us of the recipient of tins large bonus to immigration should be carefully made before, en eh bargain is completed. ~\Vc are ghing much—more in the shape of emigration inducements than wiil ever, in all probability, be offered to the population of Europe agai;!. and we have a right to demand that we obtain in return exactly that which wo need, immigrant.,! of a high character and personal physique.