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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1745, 16 August 1905, Page 61

The “Saturday Review,” in discussing the renewal of the Japanese Alliance, expresses "the opinion that India does not lie within the field of Japanese activity. “There is no reason to anticipate any missionary enterprise of Japan on behalf of the Asiatic idea; though she might use the idea for her own national ends. A more considerable danger threatens from her future relations with parts of our Empire winch, are not' Asiatic. In fact, it is very difficult to see what effective answer we can give to a protest on her part against the exclusive policy pursued by some of oui* colonies towards her subjects. She has proved herself the superior of a great European Power in the field, and at least her equal in all the humanities of warfare. She enjoys an alliance on equal terms with ourselves. By what logic, then, can her subjects be excluded from some of the King’s dominions as unfit to work and live in them? Our only answer can be that we have no control over colonial legislation, which amounts to saying that our Empire is nothing but a very loose confederation with no central authority 1 — which is unfortunately the fact.” Many people run away with the idea that they are receiving valuable information from the older generation of Mapris, when the fact is tliat the Maoris are too polite to give them the correct version. Mr A. Hamilton states that it is very ooramon for persons questioning a Maori to ask leading questions. The native does not care to say the assumptions are wrong, hut, asfl often as not, politely assent*. a