COLONIST AND NATIVE IN NEW ZEALAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume IV, Issue 95, 9 March 1866, Page 3

COLONIST AND NATIVE IN NEW ZEALAND.

The Thn--i attributes the failure of the New Zealand colonist to restrain the Maori from disorder, to the theory of the patrons of the natives that the peace should be kept by Imperial troops, who would be less vindictive, more considerate, and better disposed to moderate the seventies of war. Had the savage been left to the settler alone, like the Red Indian to the backwoodsman of America, the inevitable struggle, severe as ifc might have been, would have but one end— the end which has been witnessed and accepted m all countries and ages. Happily, the end of our system is m sight at last. Nobody m the colony doubt 3 for an instant that if the British army and its generals were but embarked for England, and the settlers left to protect themselves m their own way, the ! difficulties of New Zealand would be promptly terminated now and for all time. " When the troops do go," says the Wellington letter of the Time's, " and the colonists are allowed to fight as they please, short work will be made with the rebels." In fact, to crown the absurdity of our position, the Colonial Legislature has actually begged that we would be good enough to spare ourselves the expense which we undertake, and leave them without an assistance which is of more harm than use. This time, at n,uy rate, the proposal is not likely to be made m vain, and when it is accepted we shall neither hear nor fuel much more 'of New Zealand wars. — The Herald remarks that the tale which had been told us of the end of the war, of the proximate withdrawal of the Imperial troops, and the pacification of the island by the energetic measures which the Governor had tampered with wise clemency to the natives, is blown to the wind 3by the news of the murder of the two envoys sent by the General on the We3t Coast to parley with the Wanganui insurgents on the conditions of peace. At this moment, too, of all moments, there occurs a " constitutional crisis" of the kind m which our colonies are becoming so unhappily notorious. Mr. Weld was outvoted because he proposed to suppress the Maori insurrection by the colonial forces without the aid of Imperial troops, and had accordingly to saddle the colonists with an increased taxation. Mr. Stafford's Ministry, if ever formed, will be averse to the withdrawal of the English forces, and disposed to rely on the Imperial Government m a degree that will be most unpleasant to Mr. CardwelL What distresses everyone who takes an interest m the present or future of this colony, is th<2 calamitous result of this interregnum of governmeuts, and the calamitous fact that the Maoris have it'all they own way while their foes are at variance.