The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 160, 15 May 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1879.

Sir Bartle Frere, in a despatch on the Native difficulty in South Africa, summarizes his views as follows " It seems to me that this same principle of self-preservation and self-de-fence should be steadfastly adhered to in all our future proceedings. It may be quite possible to patch up a peace with this or that tribe which shall for the time be more or less satisfactory to sonic of the interests in this or in a neighboring colony, but I submit that her Majesty's Government should not permit pence to he made till her Majesty's unquestioned supremacy has been established and recognised by all Zulu tribes who now acknowledge Cetywayo between this and the Portuguese territory around Delagoa Bay. This I firmly believe to be the only guarantee for pence, security, good government, and progressive civilisation throughout her Majesty's possessions and all neighboring territories in South Africa ; and, without such security, I feel assured that the Colony of Natal can never be a sale residence for peaceloving and civilised men of European descent," The wisdom of the above advice is as applicable to the Maoris as it is to the Zulus. All over the civilized world a false sentiment has tended where native races exist to place the relations existing between them and their European contemporaries in a false position. It is necessary at any cost, in the words of Sir Barfcle Frere, that " Her Majesty's unquestioned supremacy should be recognised and established." We in New Zealand may ask —ls the Queen or Tawhiao's authority paramount in certain districts in the North Island t There can be but one answer, viz., a savage reigns in New Zealand, and that the Prime Minister and ox-Governor of the Colony has been at his Court engaged in the delicate and dirty process of bribing him to bo quiet and peaceable. It has been said that a Native war, though short and decisive, would be disastrous to the progress of the Colony, but we question whether a decade of bribery and corruption has not proved more demoralizing to both Europeans and natives, and more obstructive to the civilization of the North Island than a conflict sufficient to establish the supremacy of the European race would have been. It is true that the Pakeha is a trespasser, or was one originally, in this land, lmt the logical sequence of admitting his prior claim would be for the white race to vacate both Islands cu masse. Mr Roebuck, the distinguished M.P. for Sheffield, was not far oil' the truth when lie said that such Native races must be civilized off the face of the earth, They will not assimilate with other nationalities. Slowly but sure y idleness, disease, and dirt carries tliem off. The main effects of our legislation for Maoris has hitherto been directed to making provision for them by large grants of land and money. The immediate result of these grants lias been to foster those habits of laziness which more than anything else tends to to destroy the race, Par better to have made the Maoris work for their living, though they occupied no higher position than that of serfs. If there is a future lor the Maori in this country he must be compelled to labor for his subsistence,, and the maudlin inhumanity of the present system of feeding and petting him must be abandoned,