TAURANGA

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 155, 12 May 1864, Page 3

TAURANGA

Yksthuday mornim; tin? 'Alexandra' arrived from Tiiuraiifja, which place sin; left oil Tuesday. Tin: principal item of intelligence is thill it is not the intention of tho (I'encral to prosecute the campaign any furl her during the present season, but simply to establish the line of posts between on the east. and Kaplan on the west coast. .Manual tuutari is distant some thirty miles only from Tauranija. ami this object, therelore will be, we suppose, neither dillieull to carry out nor to maintain.

i Whatever 111:13' have been our loss at the affair ; of tin; gale Jiali, its effect lias been ;i most salu- ! tary 0110 to tla' natives, it has clearly shown I them tliiit 011 open ground, and where our arlil- ! h-ry can he brought to bear, tluit resistance, I however .strong their positions, is fruitless. ; The strong pah to which they had betaken tliem- ! selves after the evacuation of the Gale Pa, has been found, altera reeonnoissan.-e, tohave been I also abandoned. 'Ihe .Maoris have in fact cnj tirely deserted the district, and in all prolmhij lily have betaken themselves to the interior, ! there to raise the food which will enable them to ! ciM't'v on the insurrection during the next year's campaign. ; To prevent, this must, be our object. The ! destruction of one rebel cultivation is worth I more than the rapture of twenty evacuated pahs. ; 3.'or do we think that, the dilliculty would be so : great if set about in a really practicable maimer. ; I?lying columns composed of men accustomed ; to the bttsh, would be able, nut. only to penetrate in swift and sudden raids into the enemy's country, but would be able to carry with lliem the necessary supplies for the ten or twelve days I which these raids might, occupy. Jt would be estimating the Anglo tjaxon iu ,\cw Zeland far lower titan those of his race who have done the | same tiling in America anil elsewhere, lo suppose I that he would either be outwitted by the cunning of the savages, or afraid to meet with them in u bush skirmish 011 any tiling like equal terms,

ST !L ( i'r CLTFFORD 'S OPINION OF THE iOLrt'l' OF GOYFIiNOi: BROWNE. I-- publish below the following extract from a otter mnt ten by the Into Speaker of the New Zealand J louse of A ssembl v, Sir Charles Clitl'ord. "loc i appears in the Cornwult Chronicle of a late date. Su ( hiirles Cihi'ord believes, as there are few "oi\ Jierebit, biiieve. dial had Governor Browne's pohey Ijoen al,ly sugiported and allowed to be LMiried ont, we should not now be engaged 'l 1 _ j' ( !r ptcseut war. It is to the taingieriug of tlie 1 inlo-inaori or peace-at-any-girice-giarty that «e may altrilmle the giresent stru«<»le, and it is 10 same ]iai|ty, who, by their attempt to thwart t le jiohey ot the jjresent Government, are doimr utr best to bring about the extermination of the Maori race. '/ /I' 0 "binding of Sir Charles as a 2Cew /jealiiiul statesman, his position as Sjieaker of our House of liepresentatives lend additional weight to the arguments which he uses. It is thus tlmt he speaks of the last drog) added to the of our degradation by the abandonment of \ aitara by Sir George (irey, after the murder ol the unarmed escort at Oniata, 011 the Ith of M ay last reasons,' says Sir f'litfnrd, writing ol tiovcrnor Browne, " an; not. heli-n- the pnhlic. I is much feared that it is one of those concessions to expediency which have impressed the natives with a t.-ilsc idea of their superiority. This poliev, which hail iormerly been carried to a great extent, is belie\ C(1 to be the real cause of the present, most calamitous war. It is the opinion of many of those host I ablo to judge, that had (iovenior Urowue's policy been ably supported and lully carried out, the present, outbreak ivowid never have occurred, and the native race would have been saved frum that extermination which ii"W seems to he their late. I might have' gone into greater detail, but I must have said enouirli to piove the injustice ot the charge, audio clear the character of an ,absent man, whose career in New Zealand I had an opportunity of watching, and whose firmness in upholding tlie limcr <>f his counlrv, togowith his extreme solicitude to ilo ninre tiian jc.stice to the native race, has in some quarters not met with the appreciation lhat was his due. I may say one word lor tlie colonists of New Zealand. A n'v one who will take the trouble to look at the Act's passed hy the (ieneral Assembly of the Colony, and notice the large sums voted 011 the ' Estimates' for peauetul native ]>urposes, will certainly not accuse them ot wishing either to oppress or exterminate the race."