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Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 1, 25 April 1848, Page 2

We do not intend to make a general practice of adding an English translation to our Maori column. For the reasons that have been above laid down, its contents will be for a long while yet of little interest to any but Natives themselves; while the double space thus occupied could ill be spared. We believe, likewise, that the greater number of our readers possess sufficient knowledge of that language to be able to satisfy their own curiosity, should any inclination be felt that way. Several reasons, however.—one of which is the hope that this journal may travel beyond the precincts of the colony—have determined us to publish in both languages the following address. It is given as a practical exemplification of the rules by which our correspondence with so susceptible a race is to be guided ; of the style, and of the subdued tone which it is intended to adopt. The peculiar Maori phraseology is of course literally preserved. Right is better than Might. Good morning to you all, kind friends, to all of you to whom this paper may come, to all who are natives of this country. We who write this paper are Englishmen. We love yon ; we love our own nation. Listen, then, to what we have to say. Think well about it. If you see that it is true, well; then you will follow our advice. If you think that it is not true, then you will write to us, and shew us our error. There are two races in this country. Both came to it from another land ; one is the native race, the other the foreign one. Thai came here long ago ; this arrived only the other day. Both are (families of | men, made alike in body and soul. Both are under the rule of one God. They are brothers; therefore let them love one another, let them do one another good. Let each teach the other whatever good things he knows. This is right : this is what ought to be done ; this is what both wish to be done. But although they are brothers, children of one Father, they have grown up without knowing one another. They did not play together when they were children ; they lived in different countries, in countries far off one from the other, therefore they are strange to one another ; they are Pakehas and Tauhou ; they do not understand eachother's language,ov customs, or laws. This is the reason why their good wish, their wish to do each other good, is only partly fulfilled; this is the reason why sometimes they have done each other harm: there are some bad men among both races, and because this is seen and known by all, some forget the many that are good, and think evil of them all—of the whole race. This arises from ignorance : we shall try to put an end to this ignorance, and to show plainly both the good and the < 'il of both races; the good of those who live well, and the evil of those who live ill: whether the evil be in the foreigner or native we shall not be afraid to shew it whenever n e see it; and in the same way with what is good and just, we shall always rejoice to speak of it, wherever it may be found. '• Na te tika i toa ai"—" Right is better than might," is our motto, and tle saying of our nation; and we think that you will take it for your motto too, because it is a true saying. Let us all then try to help in carrying out that motto, in all out actions, whether public or private. We will pay due attention to every letter written to us, come from whom or whence it may ; only let every man that writes put his name to the letter, that all may see he thinks and speaks justly and truly. If v,e think any letter that we receive will do good, we shall print it; if not, we shall bury it in our wahi tapirWe hope to prim instructions for farming and gardening after the English fashion : tor keeping bees and taking honey ; for making things useful to man—such as different kinds of fuud.soap and candles, and things of that kind, together uith some simple directions about clothes and physic, and matters relating to health. At fiiot the Maori part will only be small like a new-born child, but by little and little it will grow until it becomes as large a man as the wahi pakeha. On evety Tuesday morning we shall talk to )oii , sometimes we shall have very little to say , sometimes, perhaps, a good deal. On the first Tuesday in every month we shall print a paper for our Maori friends only , and the»e monthly papers will contain all the Maori parti of the preceding month. This will he dune tor the sake of those v. ho do no; wish to have the English part, or who may wish to keep the paper to shew their children, or to lefei to ill truie to come. lleoi ano.—Good b\e.

In the House of Commons, Nov. 24th, the report on the Address was brought up by Mr. Hey wood. Mr. Osborne commented on Various topics of the Royal speech, and denounced the system hitherto adopted to suppress the slave trade as one of the greatest humbugs that had ever been perpetrated. Lord George Bentinck attempted to elicit from the Ministry some declaration of their intentions with respect to the relaxation of the Bank Charter Act. He ridiculed the notion that the existing embarrassments were occasioned by railway speculations, and contended that it was free trade that had taken the gold out of the country. The consequence of the policy adopted, with regard to corn and currency, was that England, which a few years since was the pride of the world, now presented a spectacle of bankruptcy, ruin, and shame, at which the finger of scorn was pointed bye\ery ciulised nation, from the United Stales to the walls of Canton. Lord John Russell said that with respect to emigration, he held it to be useful as a subsid' ,ry measure in some respects, but he did not believe that there was that over-population in Ireland which sume persons alleged. As to Lord George Bentinck's speech, Mr. Cannings phrase, that "much good indignation had been thrown away," was veiy applicable to it. He believed that this period of difficulty would be surmounted—he would not say by the wisdom of the measutes of the Government, but by the energy and noble character of the nation. The report was brought up, and the address oidered to be presented to her Majesty. A meeting of the members of parliament and other gentlemen favorable to emigration to Australia had been held in Waterloo-place. The chairman stated that within the last fifteen months 13,000.000 quarters of wheat had been brought into the country, which had led to an outlay of not less than *33,000,000, in addition to tlte expenditure of ±'5,000,000 for relief of the destitute population, £10,000,000 voted by Parliament for the support and employment of the destitute in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotlaud, and £1,500,000 for the poor of England and some parts of Scotland. Thousands upon thousands of the people of the three countries nere famishing, whilst millions of acres in our vast colonies were wasting for want of men. The cause of this was simply the obstacles that they had to encounter from the Colonial-office. We had too large an empire, and too small a staff to manage it. During the last three months, whilst three thousand or four thousand had gone to America, not more than a few hundreds had gone to Australia. Mr. Archibald Boyd said that in Australia they had even been compelled to import natives from the Hebrides, and that upwards of 1000 Polynesian savages were imported per month to tend their flocks! that they ,*e, c compelled to en.ploy heathens and savages, whilst their Christian brethren were dying of hunger. Sir Edmund M'Naghten moved a resolution, which was adopted—" That this meeting feel confident that the colony itself will liberally contribute to any measure of pecuniary aid which the British Government may sanction." The awful state of Ireland was occupying the British Parliament, and very stringent measures were being rapidly carried through both houses for the suppression of the many diabolical murders that are of almost daily occurrence m that country. As the British press very truly observes, it is high time to act at once, if we mean to save tile country. We have forborne too long, and are now feeling the consequences. We are reaping the harvest of the monster meetings, where the seed was flung broadcast over the land by the v.nerabh priesls and loi/iil repealers. The following is the language of one of these repealing gentlemen (Mr. Meagher) at a gathering lately in the North of Ireland : —" From this spot I tell the people of England, and of Ireland too, that every time I see the flag of England, I curse it; it is an ensign ot our degradation, the badge of our sla\ery, the signal of our corruption. Whereever that flag flies, degradation, corruption, misery, death, follows. The old English sjsteiu must be upturned and levelled, and we will erect on its rurns a temple dedicated to the genius of our country's independence." Such is the language used by those who call themselves the friends of Ireland. —A farther augmentation of the army was anticipated. The last augmentation amounted to 10,000, and a large increase was expected.—lt is intended tt> apply the principle of subdivision—which has lecently been made in the diocese of Australia—to India, the whole of which emmiimw territory is under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the four Bishops of Calcutta, Bomba), Madias, and Colombo. These four sees are to be drvided, and six new sees formed, se that for the present there will he ten Indian Bishop instead ot four, and this number will be n • (.leased as speedily .is cncumslances » 11 ' penult.