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It will expend the funds derived from the sales of land in the districts it affects on their most legitimate objects—the improvement and settlement of the country by immigration and road-making. It -will take nothing from the Eevenue of the Northern Island, but greatly increase it in the long run—and it will leave entirely untouched the present and future Revenues of the Middle Island. It will go a great way towards the speedy relief of the Imperial Government from the obligation of bestowing the costly Military protection and assistance it is now so generously giving. It will remove the heavy burdens caused by the war from the Europeans, who suffer by it, to the Maoris, who have wantonly provoked it. It will introduce and establish the permanent presence of a power sufficient to create and keep alive in the minds of the Natives that respect without which all attempts to civilise them are hopeless. It will pave the way to their reduction beneath the sway of law and order, and give them a chance of escaping a doom otherwise inevitable. And thus it will render possible the co-existence in New Zealand of both races in peace and prosperity. Alfred Domett. October 5th, 1863.

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MILITARY SETTLEMENTS.