The New Zealand Herald. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1864.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 214, 20 July 1864, Page 3

The New Zealand Herald.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1864.

St'KCTEUI'It AGJJ.YDO. " Give every mail tliino ear, but Tow thy voice: Take eaoli man's vousuro, but reserve tby judgment. This above all,—To tliine owuself be true; And it must follow, as the night tlie day, Thou canst not then be fake to any man."

We must at least give Mr. Gorst crcd.it lor t!ic display of a considerable amount of .Jesuitical cunning in his work of the 41 Maori King." Jt is clearly written for the purpose of misleading the British Parliament and people, and contains just so much of a semblance of truth fullness as to enable him to do so, where, as must necess irily be the case, the reader is but ill-informed on the subject of which he reads, and where Mr. Gorst's academical nosiiiou is likely to bo taken as a set-oil" to anv doubts which may arise in the mind of the reader. To the settlers of Auckland Mr. Gorst is well known as a thoroughly unpractical man, a wild theorist, to whom unfortunately was committed a most important trust, in the execution of which he signally and disgraceI fully failed, and then hurried from the country, chagrined and mortified, in ill humor with himself, and with every one here. He is reported to have said at the moment of his leaving for Melbourne, when asked bv a friend if lie intended to return, that lieVould give the people of Auckland leave to hang him if lie returned among them again. II is work on the Maori King may be looked upon as the ebulition of a revengeful and unchristian spirit, which ever seeks to iii|uro those from whom it has received kindness and whose kindness it has once abused. Mr. Gorst has not even the virtue of sincerity which is possessed by some of the PhilgMaori party, Bishop Selwyn, Sir George Grey, and others who mix freely and on

terms of equality with the natives, and. who carry out in practice that which they profess. Mr. Gorst on the contrary preserved in his demeanour to the Maoris the same "d d nigger" style of condescension which he is the first to accuse the settlers oi using, and was consequent |y ns a-rule even more unpopular with the Natives than he ■was with the Europeans. Knowing the real facts of the case —all that really did and did not occur before Mr. Govst left Xew Zealand, all that lias since occurred, we Are able, as we read paragraph after paragraph of his book, to detect at once the untruthfulness ot his assertions and conclusions. To say that the whole native population of New Zealand is made to atone for the crimes of Ngatiinaniapoto may be believed in England, where it is iiHed to hamper the working of the "New Zealand Settlement Act," but in New Zealand it just passes for that which it is worth—milling at all. In no case has the war been carried into the territory of Natives who have not lirsfc fttllv committed themselves to the rebellion. The natives at l'atamahoe, Mangarei, and other settlements close into Auckland, who were so clearly proved to be involved in the wide spread conspiracy to bum Auckl.'tnd and murder the white population are not Ngatiinaniapoto— neither are the natives of the Thames, to whom was committed the special charge of burning the City of Auckland itself. The ranks of the rebel army were recruited, from the first, with men of almost; every tribe in New Zealand, south of Auckland, and we do not believe that a-single tribe would have remained loyal or even neutral from the North Cape to Cook's Straits if our focres had met with serious disaster at the tirst otV-set.

It has been saiil that at Taurauga we took possession of tlio country and so drove the rebels into rebellion. It must be remembered, however, that parts of the East Coast tribes had some time been openly in the field, and that it; was not until the European settlers were obliged to tly for their lives that the military movement towards Taurauga took place. It is quite true, as remarked by a cotomporary, that Archdeacon Jirown returned to Tauranga after his precipitous flight", and that he is still there— but so are the troops, and it was not until the troops were sent down that Archdeacon Brown returned.

Mr. Uorst is ono of those who sees, or professes to see, in 1 lie earryin:: out: of the •• IN'ew Zealand .Settlements .Vet" lite extermination of the natives " upon false preten- " ees. at the cost of the .British (< overmnent, "and for the brnrfif of the voloiuxtxlie on to slate that the propounders of the scheme knew it to he imjiraet ieahie, but wished for the continuance of Ihe military expenditure, which, he states. is so prolit- " utile to New Zealand colonists."' ]Sow to English readers, whose idea of the colony may even lead them to suppose that Dunedin is a rising suburb of Auckland, till this may appear very convincing: hut Mr. (rorst wrote tliese words with the palpable intention of deceiving—he must have known that the lie was in his licit ft while his pen traced this false accusation against the colonists, lie knew that the authors of litis bill, the liepresentat ives of the House of Assembly, wero the majority of them men who represented constituencies, which, instead of gaining one fraetioii by any military expenditure, however great, would, on the contrary, be large losers by the war. Had this and other bills been passed only by Auckland, Taranak', or even byltawkc's J3ayand Wellington members there would have been some semblance of reason for making such nil accusation. The people of the middle island, however, have all to lose and nothing whatever pecuniarily to gain in the process of the carrying out ot ti.ese measures;. Jn the establishment of a sound and solid peace they have much to gain. Thev were willing to vote ;l>3,000,0(j0 of monev, of which they will bear the larger portion of the charge, to settle these Maori barbarities once and for ever ; they desire to preserve from disgrace the Uritish honour, and as good subjects to assist in <]ue!ling rebellion, within the colony. All this they have to gain by carrying the war to a successful termination, but not one sixpence in the shape of commissariat expenditure, not one local improvement in the construction of roads, or location of settlers, will result, to the people of the middle island. They have till to pay and nothing directly, and as Mr. Gorst accuses them, pecuniarily to receive, and these arc the men, and Mr. Gorst well knew it when he wrote, who passed the " ?sew Zea- ! land (Settlements Act," an Act which Mr. Gorst affirms was propounded '' for the pnr- " pose of involving the British Government " in an undertaking which will rctjuire the " presence of a large body of troops, thus " continuing thai; military expendit tire which " is so profitable to New Zealand colonists."