MR. KYNNERSLEY ON NEW ZEALAND AFFAIRS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume IV, Issue 757, 17 January 1870, Page 2

MR. KYNNERSLEY ON NEW ZEALAND AFFAIRS.

(From the London Times.) Sir,—Will you kindly permit me,. j thrbu^b jour columns, to lexpress r jmy surprise that Karl Grariville's^ U last desjVateli to the Governor of Kiesr* ! Zealand lias not as yet called forth' any publicly-expressed"protest fropatf numerous persons now{ .resident in England .whom it dij-ectlv or indirectly concern s ? ! . ~: All those,, who have either pro-, perty or relatives, 6r : friends in:Ne'srr" Zealand, or, indeed, id any other colony j are more or iessinterebtedin this matter, and lean state that hiany residents in the'midlandco^untiesiar^rf anxiously expecting: the..;^old New1 * Zealand colonists now in London to . take the initiatiTe by convening .&. meeting, or taking some other means of evoking; ra; expressioi* of pub&rj . ppinion."' *""■""':'-;•'• v"">?-;-.- <■")'*■, V '..V '■< .-: J£"""" ; The^degpatcQ will Jtfc. ir^sli^ into aprij and^l cifcnlate^^-tfireu^h-i: I the North 'Island^ three tnonths. and wilt'tmlytoo soon pro- ! Hiici* its nl»ftiral^e^uj^ ; *i|^ ;is&*N Zealand. ;, li*ei%'i-ns.^cblvtnfsti|; :-;-iiovK'ii|.'' En^lahd then, not'hav^ic^us^ t* renroach ourselves for haJan^qui^j^l allowed it to proceed on vit3-!waj^ without even irecording a prote^ti. "" ,1 'am .-prepared to maintain that, New Zealand settlers have treated, the narives } throu£htiu:ti iiot^aolf- r VfiiU justice but with gpejat gener-! osity, and have scrupulously avoided giving them"any possible pretext for. i discontent j, and in return for this our out-settlers are wantonly n>uri dered/tbeir >\irives w:iswters^U|il lated.or eaten, their children thrown to ifeed the Maori dogs--iina -dojthey say in England? Do they say thai these murderers; must be put down a^t all haza:ds ? l Do they say that so lon# as this^ cbhduct tof tne English settlers as a body tp- : wards the na:iyes is strictly upright, just and liumane, and so long as ( they do not slirink from their shpre, j but take the hottest of the fightin^ land tax themselves to the utmost • productive limit of taxation, , they shall he supported by the power of I England? No, Lord Granville only witbdraws the lasr. British soldier-Trom I rhe colony, tells us that ■" large fcbnj cessions are unuvoidable to appease 'the pervading discontent- ■of 'the natives," and publishes, his dcsliatoh in the /('inies for their informntion and guidance - Let? us make an effort to.ascertainif the despatch truly represents -the teeing,of the Kugrlish people.-Ifwe find that it; does not, well and good; and if we find that Englishman have so far changed since the Indian mutiny tbat Lord Granville really expresses /their opinions in .this despatch.it • will be so far satisfactory/ that I, for one, shall not consider it ? a,ny great hardship, if wb ,Englishmen in ISWf Zealand are, ndjucl? against our will^ driven to relin<jiiish Qur tide bf •• Englishmen" * altogether.-^: gin. sir, your,obedient.servant, ' : ■ ; T. A.Sneyd J&YNN^i.Br^ Late H^ident^^strate.&p();G(HQf> . mi6Bioner oTGoldfieldl* |n "' ' New ®tirt& }^^:: ~