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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7271, 9 March 1885, Page 4

In oar English letter, the colonial questions principally occupying public attention at the time the mail left will be found handled in an able manner by our own correspondent. It will be seen with what intense interest all colonial movements are now watched since the colonising fever took hold of the Continental nations of Europe. The intended despatch of the Hinemoa to Samoa on a mission of observation appears to have caused quite a scare in certain quarters, and excited a portion of the German Press to denounce it as a daring attempt on the part of New Zealand to establish its political and commercial supremacy in the eastern portion of the South Pacific. It is interesting to notice how small an occurrence will suffice to invest an individual or a colony with an importance previously unthonght of. Hitherto we have been content to work out our mission in a quiet and somewhat prosaic way, developing the resources of the colony, and endeavouring to keep pace with the times in establishing our relations with neighbouring colonies and the United Kingdom by means of splendid fleets of steamers ; when, all of a sudden, we find our actions causing anxiety to Princes and statesmen of foreign nations, and becoming ', the subject of negotiations between the representatives of mighty Empires, m We may surely congratulate ourselves .on the thought that after having such potency attributed to us we shall never again be lost sight of. And all this distinction has been put upon us .oiling to the circumstance that the in-

habitant* of a few «mau~i«l a n so impressed with ourenter^f ludb ** substantial fairness with WS'* «* treated natives and native oS * e ***• ce,Ted the not annat^dSSSS "*' their destiny linked to ours ihi. i *"■« amotion on their part has £&£*s** ot giving notoriety to them aJw-ij" f ffect and secured for us a commonfifiH abuse: in 30 much that, whether SS? formal union wished inhfSS?'"*** the names of New Zealand anTs**** hereafter be ever assorted •■£%?** *or is it "at all unlikely J* 0 ?' mentity of 'their interest. £ lha expectedly brought into prominence J*' by the very hostility it bHSft be elevated to the position of * d ' factor in the settlement of th» V*** question. It is not in the £» c remote nations to prevent the J!" Cf turn of largertribesand territories i" countries and populations ia'thpi?** mediate vicinity. The very UJ* led to the enlargement of P™, S J"" 6 the consolidation of the German V *? itself will eventuallr lead to th * m result in the Pacific, despite- a*n*s? iron Chancellor's will. i n d th; . tha is the more likely to happen J?* the wish for union prove, £? mutual to the parties corrected St geographical position as well a* i* ; tity of interest. If Samoa and \ Zealand should both be agreed udo r ; desirability of incorporation, it is difficSJ to see what rjghc Germany, or End a either for that matter, has to prevent °j I **i. would certainly be very foolia), 1! " ! either of them to interfere in the basin * ; as* their doing so would, just in th ' of unions of another kind, only im^ 8 the desire for its completion. " For g!/ many, especially, it would be very on r * to thus confer on us a vet greater * riety ; as, in all such case:, matters »ni take their course, while those who attem to control or prevent them get nothing J annoyance for their pains. Besides "it - not becoming that a great State in Enrr should get out of temper simply becauil people in the Pacific wish to settle uV affairs after their own fashion and accord ing to their own liking. ""'"*"