THE Otago Daily Times DUNEDIN TUESDAY,APRIL 6.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2236, 6 April 1869, Page 2

THE Otago Daily Times DUNEDIN TUESDAY,APRIL 6.

I The full tide of English criticism on ! tiie Now; Zealand ..war has "to flow. ; > Every journal in the TJ^ifeed ! Kingdom has spraethiiig '' 7 io" sayjwith respect to curi'eiat' evißiits in the North Isjand, 'From all quarters com^'the voice of ,the critio,• .crude' !o^S.ni6mi erroneous statements, j and impossible suggestionß, are freely offered to^ the British public; the colonist is censured for his supineness, the savage execrated for his cruelty, j our, difficulties are treated as if they vrere entirely of our own creation, and a Native policy is sketched out off-hand for the adoption of our,embarrassed rulers.. Our brethren ia England are clearly not unmindful of us. They give us ,overflowuig sympathy and. unlimited advice. If they attempt to censure, it' is in tne

f wildest of tones; and if they are comr , pelled to refuse our petitions, the riy f^al in so excessively courteous that we cannot complain. The New Zealand Wonist, overburdened with taxation and alarmed by the progress of .rebel; lion, cannot find fault with the g^acioqs leading articles which are now pouring' iir^ipoEfhimifomrfche mother country. I|e has asked for bread and has received a stone; but then he is furnished with ever bo *ihahy Batisfactory reasons to j show that the stone* is re&ily good for him, Md that the bread is not-

j The self assurance with which the Native difficulty is disposed of by. tjh.s English O?ress betrays ilie profound/ ignorance which exista with regard to it •Qur countrymen at lEorae scarcely s^era to be aware,, tfcaj; there ig any^flifficulty of the kind at aIL The relations in which the New Zealand colonist stands towards the Bfaan fre afM?n«4 tb bemucii.the 'sHyrieaa tfi^wv/teclfwe white; settler standstow|i?dß' the^aV4||e aTxinginals iaofcher countries.; There U ijo recognition of ~ #10; pilculiajitie^, of our case. In tho.BajE^^ way it isas,BiiiDed that thef Maori is much the aacae sort of aboriginal as the B©d Indian or the Hindoy, uud that he can he dealt with in much the same "manner. From these; premises, it is natuijally inferred that the, New Zealand bolonwfc.has himselfto blame for hia jirtssent'troubles, and* that he ought to ifid himself of them by adopting the same means as English settlers have Adopted elsewhere.' To .appeal W the mShen^anttyfotamsiaace^t iif hinted, i^ to prove that we have iio manliii)e«s in o;ur public character, and that we are fairing ; , jfor,,, troops j^erely for the sake of oommi^riat pickings. It iis, an unfortiinate twng that the fate of a colony should rest, as were, in the hands of writers utterly unacquainted with ita position. Jf thesa expressions of opinion, obviously based on mere c^njfecture, are to guide the policy of the Imperial authorities, the colony cannot expect a fair consideration of its chums. It ia indeed folly to expect - anything when the fading journal,, of the 'United Kingdom, followed by almost every otlier journal, persista in Btating our case so ignoruntly. These journals, for instance, will have it that the whole question between the colonist and the Maori is Bimply one of arithmetic. The colonists number 200;(K)p j the disaiffected Maoris number! 20,000; therefore, there are ten cd|onw& to one. Maori. The jjournak then proceed to demonstrate that the settlement of the Native difficulty is really the easiest thing in the world. The ten colonists have only to dispose of the ose Maori, and thp thing k done, The argument is quite, as sound in its way as Captain Bobadil'b plan for destroying a hostile army. We quote the Captain's words, in order to show how strictly the comparison holds between the two cases:—

' Why thus, sir. I would select nineteen more, to myself, throughout the land, gen* tlomen they should be, of good apirito, strong and ablo constitution; I would chooao them Dy an inatmct, a character that Ihavo ; and I would teach- these nineteen the special ruka, aa your pnnto, your reverao, your stoccata, your ltnbroccafco, your paisadb, your morit&nto', tiUthoy could all play very near or altogether as .well aa myaolf. This done, say the enemy were forty.,thquannd, strong, we twenty; would corao into' the field the tenth of jittek or fchereabouta; and we would challenge twenty of the enemy; they could not in tfieir hononrre/uie ua; well, we wquid; kill thenj ; ohalien^e, twenty more, kill them; twenty, more, lull them ; twenty more, kill them too ; and thus would we ki'l every maa hia twenty % day, that'a twenty spore; twenty score, that's two hundred; two hundred a day, five days a,thousand) foitytJbbuiand ; forty tin^etfire, five ,timea foxty, two hundred daya killa them all up ly computation.' ,• t ; _ .';"',.' . •-■.;■■.,' It would be quite as feasible a matter to slaughter an army of forty thousand men in Captain Bobadil's style, as to clear the country of twenty thousand Maori rebels in the manner hinted at by the Times, No English writer possensing the slightest acquaintance with the character of the two Islands and the circumstances of the colonists, would venture to put forth such ain^ .argti; ment as that we allude to. If t'herewjjre, 4)0,000 colonists, ; in.; New ZeahxM, 20,000 rebels would keep the North Island in a state of war for years, at a cost in blood and money and devastation whicH no colony could eridureV At the present moment there are not two thousand, rebels in the ficld»> yet the energies and resburceslof the colony are brought to bear against them with very indifferent results. Any considerable addition to the number of the enemy^ would render it a question whether the North Island could be permanently held by the settlers, except * at a few points. It.is a noticeable fact thWthe-JsJnglish Press draws no distinction between the two Islands, as regards their relation to these disturbances. It is taken for granted that the South Island is prepared to contribute,* its quota of *men as well its money/for the suppressiori'of rebellion. Probably,'' however, English journalists are not yje,t aware of the geographical distinction between the North and South Islands. The policyof the Tmp6rial Govesm.ment is no linger doubtful.. Public opinion in the* mother' country 'seems to be resolutely set against the despatch of a ; Bingle~soldieE to.-New- Zealand. Every jpurnal, "without exception, we believe, 'gives us to understand explicitly that we must provide, our own soldiers,: and- that no assistance fr<jra home can be ldbked.fof."" Tlie 'sympathy; of; our countrymen, excited by the news from Poverty Bayv: did oio¥ leaii: thpm to stretch out their hamda towards us. The sympathy has passed; off in words. We are exhorted^to j>er-j' severei in ' r6nv''s6it-i^i^^r^lt6Tm rl'v^i giinents of friendly Natives, arfcFf'tof march them against the rebels in. the, sup and certain yho^^qt^jjcto^f^L^ can hardly be supposed that, with the current of public* opinion* running m strongly in one direefcipn, the policy of the Cabinet can nave any tendency:td flow in an opposite one. The leading; articles of the English jouraals are, in. this respect; as authoritative, probably], as so many Queen's Speeches. Tltey are certain indications of the pres<jnii policy of the Empire-—a poUcywMcJlf

consists in -withdrawing tlie regiments rtatiooed qJbroad, for, the purpose of eoacentiatingUtrcrrjtlfc and reducing expenditure at ljomc.\

'the Diocesan Synod of Dcneditt.will com* HMinoj its first session to morrow afternoon, at"'two o'clock, in the Oddfellows' Hail, George-street. The Fine Alia Exljibilioit will be closed, byHia Honour tho Superintendent on Sa*' tujrday next." A concert jwll be given on tho occasion, and tho drawing; far the Art Union will olibo take place.

Tho Quarterly Summca a-Meeting of Court Enterprise, A.O.F, 3090, win bo held this evening, at eight o'clock. ', A meeting of the Standard Property Investment Society Kill bo held to-morrow evening from six to eight o'clock. ' An advertisement :i another column inti* njistes that all competitive poems for the pjrize offered by the, Fret ident of the Caledonian Society of Otago, must be forwarded to ttvK Seeretiiy, on or rfoefore the 22nd instant. j The fallowing jcenttemea have been elected members of the Diocesan Synod for Dnncdin a»d*iub"ufbß ;—SFPaui'a district, Messrs $. B. Martin and W. C. Young ; All Saints' distrittt, Messrs Edward Herbert and Thomas Hill y Caveraham and Green Island district, Messrs /. F. Oawin and J. T. Thomson; Port Chalmers district, Mr K. Toms. • Tbci Rflvd. Father Hitkie was a pawenger by the Bangitoto, which left Port Chalmers fpr Melbourne, via Bluff Harbour, yesterd»y afternoon. ; At the Resident Magistrate's Court, 3'eaterday, a melancholy sample of juvenile dc-. gravity in theioim of a young girl, looking littlemore than-a child, was brought before tWßencb, charged with'drunkenness. Her name was Catherine Grftjf* an(" ** WM I!lt*tc4 <iiatfihe had been convicted eight times pn> viously for similar offeaceß, and was deemed incorrigible. She waa sent tj) gaol for a week, io.defanlt of paying a fine of forty shillings. ty was a sad spectacle, asid a case' woich 4<mld not be dealt with5 in any Other way, oat surely those were equally culpable who. supplied herwith dr>«il:. [The following is the Hospital report for t^e w^ek ending Saturday List:—Patients in the Hospital ai the beginnrog M "the,week, iO7 men and 24 wome^a—total^ 131 ; admitted during the'weckV 11 men and 3, women—total 14; discharged during the same period, 17 men and 3 women—total, 20, of 18, were cured and 2 relieved j one man, 'Thomas Kelletfc, die 4of h'eartdisease. Qf the cases admitted one was'the result of a sorioua accident wl>'ch occurred to John fuller, who fell out of a window at Wain's Hotel add received (joncusiiionof the brain The attend*i*.ce of but dooir patients during tine week waa 34 daily-1$ bting men and 16 women. The number at present .ia tb,e Hospital is 124-rviz., I'OO aiaa and 24 women- " A ruffian of the first order, 0 as he was well designated by tho B-caideat Magistrate, was yeeteniay sent to gihol seven dayß, for drunkennesa, and ten days for assaulting a constable. He was described on the charge skeet as Daniel Collins, and from a short bjistory of _ his career appearing m the pages | of the Police Gazette, it lippEared that hewaa j

an Irish JUnd<mer aboui 44 years of ago, and tfftOinhigh, with a sullen determined look. That'he arrived, in Tasmania per the Lord Goderichj having been, in Nov. 1841, sent out for. ton years for hoasobreak;og,; that in January, 1851, he was sentenced at Oatlauds, Tasmania, to another ten years' servitude for mraselirealnrig; and'thafe vx October, -1851, at Hobart Town, lie gob an additional fifteen years for assault androbbery. It was also utated in Coat itbat be had since bifl arrival in &ew Zealand .been convicted of an aksault, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. ...;■■. ■ ■ ■ ■• ' ' : Jftm^^^WA^np'ot'&B^KMi^t be. tpeen. DonedJn' iiii Wellington, a female pasß«Dgor on board mad« several attempts to commit suicide by jumping overboard, though fortunately, she, was prevented from doing so. The Independent says, in explanation of the circumstance, that it appears that when the poor woman left Melbourne, she was suffering f jom the effects of a spn-utroke which she received there, and ...daring the voyage had Income very mttch1 prostrated' by sea-sick-i\csb, the combined effects of which no doubt tended temporarily to .affect her reason. Attempts were made to place the woman in hospital both in Dunedin sad Cbristchurcb, ;;lntL'|Uuacccnfu^'J. ra .Xto..p6ox. woman wt. going on to Hokitikft,, tI r v The foftowing rpfo"gran)m6 of the Duke of movemelitiir' in, this colony, is published " by^autboiify %fa ''3he Wellington U&e&^^:<>sit^: o&^^~Vy the ifuab'ne tW dbvenioiv riiceivcd a letter, dated at Sydney,1 the-22iid March, aunbuncIng that the ;Duke r of Edinburgh intends to, I<W« Sydney in^l^S^ipatea on April Ist; and expects to reach y?ts\insfton on the 6th or 7th. The- Duke has recently received orders from the Admiralty to visty; Tahiti r ; and? the Saiidwiph ilelandu, 1 which wore not -in <; the original programme, consequently bis stay in Zealand is shortened from eight tio five weeks ; and he^jwiU_if|^le," iv ,hiJß :p . .final.. j^cpjMirJ tTfr? v'&^^Abc^'l^' i .. l on j |..9r.':abont May I.sth. ,„ j^B^H...^OKercibt|B, have -time to visit only the main centres of population, b^fc until bin arrival,, at We'Ungton, his cannot : be - definitely arrpged. At present, it is'probibie titfat he'will*' be at Wellingtoa until about stha 12th j that hit Tirill then p|9^egd .to- Kolsop, stfty^og tfiere from about'the 13th to Bbo tit the 16th ; that hei w?ll thie«s proceed rtlirbttghPtlorus and Queen Charlotte's Souncls to Lyttelion; thai; he wiM be at Chmtchurcfa from .aboufc tha 18'/h or 19th to aboafe ths 2-i h ; that he will JIkJ ai Dunedin from aboat the 25th to a^out lh;e'29th; arid that he Will proceed direct from4)nnedin to Auckland, where he will make excursions and enjoy pheasant shopting fora few days. . . The reference made in the Queen's Speech to,the New Zealand'atrdcitiies is'the sabjec t ' of' tbe following remarks in the Melbonrne Daily .Telegraph jT-Wtt, did expect that the news of the Poverty Bay massacre would arbuse public sympathy in England. But it eeems that this is not iha case., Sympathy is certainly expressed in .words, but it is -depied in deeds.™ ■ No'dctxW^ say tbe Liberal JUinistry,. " tL» oase is a very sad one;" but they add, like Ainina^ab Sleek iniho play, ihatrelief "isnot'in oilr way." ,There is eomethisg of coldblobtilediiess in the words put into Her Majesty's mouth, which i'H reunites the "wann'feelinjf that the mass of f the colonists -entertain ; for their cotmtry and,, its T^urone. ( .Tho^ettlervif appears; are'tb be entirely abandoned to their own resources'. * To auoh' in'extent ib thk to be oarried, :we hear/iha*. even Fort Britomar^ whichhaßto long it time stood guardian over Auckland Harbour } is to be diflmantled, <

its Iwfttip levelled, and its guns shipped to j England. Th6^£pl\y of this act is only \ eqiwllecr^y, one' ihkg—ita meanness. We do not suppose that tbo colonists will despond ■in their ue\*r situation,, nor yet do wo ! imagine that- they be so very much | worse t off" than before. One proverb de- | clarta that the heavens smile on those who help themselves, and another that "they favour the stronger battalions. The settlers have shown that they can do the one, and, even without British regiments, tltej posscbs the other. But it should • riot foe forgotten that this war, which English statesmen are so mpch disposed' to, shirk, and which a tax-fearing people- arc so much inclined lo ignore, is a war which waJi began by the Qoeeu's representative to defend the Qjieen'ii supi-enxaoyr over tlw Qa&sn'e territory. If English-aid ia to> be denied, let it b$ bo, Victori» t in her time; ha» been more g<korou*.. " i |The crowded- andienoo lrbioh assembled at the PrinoMß Theatre kst evening, to t w|bjesii the reproduction pi " Dndet* the Giuliglit," testified abundantly to the popularity of ..the pieco,"-which waa played, we njayt consdentiously sajr] aa well, if not betier,* than it^bas ever beeni in this quarter of t|e globe.. ¥o- nrliere hut it had auch efficien fc' representatives of the characteni of £ay Traffotd and Laur» Coortland as Mr £aynerand-i£n»Jjiakeon, and the aubordin ito |iattß> were ftpecailly well! filled—Mr 'I owajttl ehowiflg"how much a really good a >tpir oim malw,of ,fn ;i&cx>m t it.' Mrfl Howard, played wiih grqat spirit a i ?eachbloaaom, and Mr SifiomoadA's yaga-" rce ?n the oompanion.pioture of the drama -j-Benaudai—wore highly relished by the major' piirt of the audience. The managet ent Irnve added greatly to the effect of the great scene by filluig it in with saow, an i lea which it is |o be woodered has not been cmied oat «l«ewhere. The dram* will be retalntid-on the boanls during the remaindor ■ojttiie.week.-,' '. . •;.•-..•;■•:■ *■':