Native Lands
The subjeot ef native lands is a very delicate one in Napier, and the Telegraph is as sensitive as the people on the question, as the following paragraph published in that journal, last Wednesday, wiU show: — "If Sir Robert Stout thought that he scored a point in making the impertinent statement that the opposition to Mr Ballance's mischievous Native Lands Disposition Bill is due to its intention to prevent great landholders from robbing and cajoling the natives he never made a worse mistake in his life. Neither Sir Robert nor Mr Ballance knows anything about the Maoris, and in their blind ignorance they are rushing the country into another native difficulty. Like all ignorant men, they will listen to no a vice, and to those who know the Maori mind and can fortell the effect this Bill will have, they impute the basest motives. When, perhaps, it is too late, the Premier and his Native Minister may have to hang their heads for very shame for their worse than blundering, their reckless playing with native affairs." This is severe —not to say crushing — to Sir Robekt and Mr Ballance.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 12, 10 July 1886, Page 2
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191Native Lands Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 12, 10 July 1886, Page 2
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