FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15717, 18 September 1914, Page 9

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

— ■» MEASURES FOR PEACE. CO-OPERATION WITH ENGLAND. (From the Herald of September 18, 1864.) It may not be directly to the interest of Great Bntom to expend any portion of I Jer revenue in the prosecution of Now l Zealand wars, any mo re than it is to the interest of the colonists to have their I farms and homesteads and lives sacrificed' Maori lawlessness and outrage, and the peaceful prosecut.on of lawful industry throughout the colony checked and interrunted by the prevalence of protracted and habitual insecurity; but it is to the interest of each party alike to cooperate for the common object of suppressing violence, and by united action contributing to the future peace and good government of the country. The British people, as well as the inhabitants of New Zealand, lme an interest in the prosperity of Uie colony rawaUy. socially, conunerciallv, and politically. There may or may not be degrees of interest in the details and particulars of which the whole is made up, but the adjustment of the account between the parties, could candour and impartialitv be depended on, would not, we believe, show a heavy balance on either side.