NEW ZEALAND "THE DAYSPRING OF LIGHT"

Wanganui Herald, Volume III, Issue 657, 20 September 1869, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND "THE DAYSPRING OF LIGHT"

In a work, published in 1863, entitled " Auckland the Capital of New Zealand" the anonymous author is very eloquent. over the advancing civilisation of the- Maoris, anticipating the greatest glories for this country if the aboriginal can be brought up to an intellectual and moral level with the white man. The author's

! fancy takes wing and breaks out into the following rapturous strain,: * m In other regions of the world, E|P^ gland has by conquest, extendW ; largely the bounds of her dominions —the result of many a brilliant victory. , But what is won by the sword, ; and that which is held by the sword, by the sword may also perish.,,; Here the issue still is pending, and the victory yet unwon; but if it shall be

given to the founders ofthis colony to be also the instriimeiife of preserving a barbarous native race, and of raising them in the scale of civilisation to a level with ourselves; then, crowned with 'these 7 unwonted blessings, the first-fruits of a coming age, the colonization of these islands will be one of the noblest conquests in theannals of our country's history; and New Zealand, already the cradle of civilization -and the day-spring of light to the heathen people of the Southern Seas, will be the brightest ornament in the borders of her empire. . *