ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 551, 22 January 1851, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Wellington Independent. . Frikkii Wirf.mh T.—You have now had time to read the letter wliich I wrote to you last week, when I said yon were foolish to write alii.i.nt those things you did not understand—the quarrel between the Pakehas and the Governor about governing. None of you Maories know anything of the Pakehas ways ahout. governing. fo r nobody has taught you the truth—neitberthe Governor, nor die Missionaries, nor Kemp, nor Deighton, nor Clarke who was here long ago. They have nil told you about the Queen governing, hut not: shout the people making their own - laws and. spending their own money in Eng • I laud—about which I have already told you is,the qiiarrel between the Pakehs.s and Sir George Grey. But now I have begun to tell you the truth of these things, and 1 will go on telling yon more, and as Sir George Grey read your foolish letter to the Natives, so I hope all white men that live near the pahs at' Wellington, at Wairarapa, at Otaki, at Bah* gitikei, at Wangariiii, and elsewhere will read mine to them, also, and 1 will tell no lies, for 1 am not bought 'with the Governor's .'utu, and have not sold my tongue to him, like Domett and Dillon, and Kemp and Deighton, and your friend Stoke 3 and many others. Well, 1 have told you in my other letter how the Pakehas in New Zealand say that they ought to make their own laws and spend their.own money as they did in England; and how the English lawmakers say also that they ought, but how Sir George Grey has prevented them by writing to the law makers and the' Queen. Now you will wonder why Sir George Grey should act iii this mannei; why he should not do what the Pakehas wish; and all their wise men say is good. You would expect that he, the Governor, would wish to please the' Pakehas and not make them angry; but it ia not so, arid I will now tell you why Sir George acts in this manner. The Pakehas in England are a very busy people, ploughing and digging, and buying and selling nnd making blankets and saws and nails' and hammers, and ships euoh as yoii see and many other things,and about all these things there are many laws made by the lawmakers yvho talk much and, write many books about the laws they make. Now, when some of the Pakehas havo gone away to New ' Zea laud, or to Sydney, or some other place where those yvho stay at home have never been, the lawmakers do not think much about .them, because they nre far off, nnd they (the.lawmakers) are so busy about the things at home. So to save trouble to the lawmakers' (as thoy think) certain persons, about 20 in number, are appointed to look after the business of the Pakehas who have gone away. These persons are called the Colonial Office, the chief of whom is a. great Bangitara called Lord Grey, but he is no relative to Sir George, neither liis father, his brother,-bis undo,i nor;even ; of the same name; and I have heard indeed that formerly j Sir George's name was not spelled in the same waytill ho changed it to nuke it like' that : of the great" ltangitara, and that the Pakehas wight think he yvas his relative.' Well, none of thesi: people called the Colonial office, have ever been in any.of theplaces vrhcrc the Pakahos are who liave gone away ' --'■-*._' "• '•''•' ■ ■■-'-'■'. ~..''A..ji

•leitlier in Ne.w 7,oaUnd or. the other places; ami ti i *s yon'inay suppose they know Scry/.liille about ' hem, and the laws -tliey make -are commonly -very bad laws, arid not well;suited for the Pakehas who have gone way.- anil jhoso Pakehas are alwav* . ■.•oraplaining* of ilte Colonial Office, and asking the .: ither lawmakers and the Queen to stop them from i making laws about tliem. ' Biit-as I said the'liV'' makers and theiQiiceh do not thiuk much' about the Pakehas who have gone,away, or care much what, they wishso long as tliey .-save themselves •rouble ; anil the Colonial Office will not give over governing the Pakehas that have gone awajVbeeause ;iliejr_are paid much ntu for doing it, and because they ban segdvlheir brothers arid other relations to be Governors and Resident Magistrates and Secretaries.ainohg''tlte'in, when they n'so get much utu. as" Sir r Georg* Grey, or Mr/'. St! Hill, or M>. Dillon, or Mr. Domett, oi'Mr. Thomas, or Mr. Petre doerf. Now, when it is; wahted to send a Governor to any place, llie 'Colonial Office chooses who it shall lie. Tliey say it sliall''be Sir George Grey, or Mr Kyre, or whoever they choose/and whomever* they say .ilie.Qn.een always; sends to be Governor. And if llie Governor is not good for the Colonial Office, but does those'thing! which make it angry, the Colonial Office tells ihe Queen, who Stops, him from being Governor any more; and he loses allthe utu which he would get if he was Governor. Thus it was wiih Captain Kitzroy. whom llie . Colonial Office, stopped from governing. So you see it is.noj really the Queen who sends the Governoi. though lie'comes in her name, but it-is the Colonial Office who sends liim aud who can take him away.-. I dare say tlie Queen never saw Sir George. Grey—perhaps she never ever heard his name, or if she has heard it very likely has forgotten it again. So he and all other. Governors are likely io think not se muchhi-ir to please the law-makers in England or the Queen, j but how to please the Colonial Office which made them Governors, and can, if it is angry, stop them from governing any more. And now I thiuk you will undprstand why.it is that Sir George Grevdoes not cure because the- Pakehas in New Zealand are angry wiih him.. It ia not they who make him Governor or can stop him from governing; and so long us the Colonial Office is not angry with him, he knows, that the. Pukfchas in New Zealaud cannot hurt him, so he need aiot care how angry they may be.. . . . And now I will tell .yon why the Governors will not let the Pakehas make their own laws and spend their own money—at least this is what'they say, and what I think also is true. When the ftikehas are not allowed to make their own laws an j spend their own money, then it is the Governor wlio does these things. He it is who makes what law he pleases, and spends the'Pakehas money iii whatever way lie likes without asking their leave. Now this is good for the/Governor but bad for the Pakeha, whose money he spends, and it is in this way. Perhaps the Pakehas say that they want a road made for their horses and carts to go upon to bring the potatoes and corn and other things to be sold. They say the road would costi:;loo,'.-and they ask for the money from the Governor to make the road; some of themineywhichtbeGoTe nrirha-i taken from them. Then the Governor says—"No, T have a brother, v or. a,- who has no money, and who will not work, for,his bread, because he is.a fine young gentleman ; I will make him my servant, nnd he shall have <£30Q, go you cannot have it to make the road," Or perhaps he says—" there is such au one who has a large mouth," and talks bad things about me, I will make him my servant and.givehim the utu. and so he will hold his tongue, or say only the things about .me that are good ;" and so if the Governor has many brothers, he gives utu to all of them, calling r them his servants; and if there are many who say bad. things of him, he gives them utn too. and his servants also,, and then tliey hold their, tongues-or say what is good about , the Governor. 'But tlien there is no money for the roads or other things that the Pakehas want. Now when the;Pakehas make their own laws and spend their own money, they say—" We-do not want so ninny servants to be paid with much utunor do we want to buy the tongues of people who" speak bad of us. We will spend the nin in making rnadi, and building, bridges over the rivers, and in piying schoolmasters ..to tesch the children (both" Pakeha and Maori) to read and to write, and many other useful tilings'.' This is what we will do with the utu ; and we will make those laws 'which are good for all the Pakehas. and not only good for the Governor, nnd-.his brothers and other servants." And so yo-.i sec when the Takehas make their own laws an>i spend tbeir own money, they get roads, and bridges.'-and' schools, and other things which they.want. but.ihejGovcmor's brothers and his other servai.iis.pet no utu. But the Pakehas think that is good, for tlie-Governor's brothers and servants ara of no use, ns I shall tell you in another letter. Now the Governor docs not like this, so he tries to prevent the Pakehas from making theis ownlaw3 and spending their own ntu. I do not mean Sir George Grey only, but all the Governors of the other places where the Pakehas do not make their own laws. ".'".' • Well then, you see that the quarrel of the Pakehas with the Governor is not because they want to get the land of the Maori, as written. 1 know that somebody told you that lie, and that it was not yourself that said it. It must have been some very wicked-man -who said so. Perhaps he thought to make the Maori quarrel with the bitter doctor and the, other Pakehas. But I think, though you are not a wise .Maori at all, and have written many foolish things, the other Maories are wiser, and'will not believe this silly story. However, I will wri;e you another letter by. and bye, and tell you and the other Maories what is really the heart ofthe Pakehas towards the Maories, nnd I will shew you that the Had persons have told jon lies about tliis thing 'also. .-." : ' -U■. 'Your oliedient servant.