THE SEAT OF WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 442, 13 April 1865, Page 4

THE SEAT OF WAR.

Our readers will see by the letter of our Special Correspondent from the head-quarter camp, Waingororo, that the Hummer's campaign is quickly drawing to a close. The head-quarters of the: 50th Regiment, and the whole of the 70th have by this time advanced to "Wahnate, another three miles, whore they will take up a position, and the General, having himself visited this spot, will return again to Wangaimi. We have yet to learn the object proposed to be effected by engaging in this campaign. The Maoris are unmolested unless they oppose the movements of the troops. ZSTo effort is made to bring them into subjection, and the road once made, ami the campaign concluded, what shall we have gained by the heavy outlay which has been occasioned"?—a road which, unless we keep a chain of garrisoned redouble on it, five-miles distant from each other, may be destroyed and rondeivd impracticable by the Maoris, in as many hours as vrc have spent weeks in making if. As it is, so heavy isihe demand for men to occupy the several posts, that the General has now with him only from seven to eight hundred men. _W.erc the line continued to Taranaki, these too would also be required to man the redoubts yet to be constructed. Will the army remain in JN T ew Zealand for ever, to perform this duty, or will the Colonial

Government Laving broken faith Tvith the military eettlers in tin's Province, inveigle a numberofmiforhiiiHtemeuintothcaceeptance of similar terine afc Wanganui, and then sell them fiH they Imve sold the Waikato militia and immigrants here.

The Pai Mar-ire doctrine of rest and quiet, the. old .Fabian system, which lias never proved, under such -circumstances as characterise the Avar in New Zealand, a greater difficulty than any other to contend with, is being played against us, We cannot always have the army with us, but; whilst here, it should, we think, be used to effect more than can be upset after its departure in a few days for as to trusting to the raising of military settlers to occupy its place, what men will repose the necessary confidence in the honor of a.colonial Government, which has shown the utter recklessness with which it could break the engagements of the colony and bring thousands of immigrants into the country under false pretences to be thrown on then- arrival here, upon public charity' lor support. J