“AS OTHERS SEE US.”

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2875, 12 June 1882, Page 2

“AS OTHERS SEE US.”

Another attempt seems likely to,bo made to secure' juslice for the Maories of New Zealand, who have been deprived; ,of their lands, by the Colonial Government, and can get no redress. “IE they resist,” .say the Colonial Ministers, “ we will exterminate them.” The Colonial Office, however will not move. It has adopted Jthe doctrine of colonial responsibility, and therefore leaves, the New Zealanders to bear the burden of their own crimes. It is useless to appeal to public opinion in the matter. ‘ The public will 'have enough to do to think about Cetewayo and his woes,’ and will baldly receive,' with sympathy, the story of' the !eyil, done to the phophet Te Whiti, who has preached peace to his, race, yet has had the audacity to claim .justice, only to be arrested as a seditious person: It is, after all, only a * chapter in the story known as “ The Extermination of a Grand Race.” The Maories were once 140,000 strong. They are now fewer than 40,000. They will soon be elbowed out and reduced by rum until they are not. 4000, and the 4000 will be hewers of wood and drawers of vjatcr. Why, after all, should we seek to arrest the inevitable? It will come, and perhaps it is as well ’tvvere done quickly.—“ Liverpool Mercury’.”