MOHI TAWHAI'S RETIREMENT.
Commenting on the retirement of Mohi Tawhai from the Native Commission, the "New Zcalander " says : —" Whilst we are not in accord with the present Ministry, we can but acknowledge, as we did the other day, that they are doing their best to unravel the tangled skein of Native complications. It is to their interest to do so as much as to the interest of the colony, for if the Ministry only succeeds in smoothing the rugonitia of the Native question, and submitting a favourable report to Parliament, they will
have succeeded in strengthening the eonfidence of the country in their administration. Putting party politics on one side, we heartily wish the Ministry success in the difficult undertaking they have in hand, and we are compelled to seriously deprecate selfish intriguing in any and every quarter to thwart such praiseworthy aims. We very much fear that unscrupulous intriguing; on the part of scheming Europeans, and the pakeha-Maori tribe generally, is at the bottom of the extraordinary action of Honi Mohi. There are, unfortunately, too many of such people who batten upon Native troubles, and who have all along etriven to upset the fiat of confiscation most righteously pronounced. To them the settlement of the vexed Native question is as nothing compared with fat lets, and ws shrewdly suspect that Honi is a mere tool in their hande. This is the only explanation we can offer for his action. He has had ample opportunities of declaring himself antagonistic to confiscation, but, Btrange to say, neglected them till this, the eleventh hour. Clearly, if Honi had been an honourable, consistent " rangatira," he would have stated his opinions long ago, and declined to tit on the Commission. However, no vey great harm has been done, and as he has so suddenly found himself on the Opposition benches, it is as well that he should retire. We understand that the Government intend to take immediate steps to appoint his successor upon thn Commission.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1853, 30 January 1880, Page 2
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331MOHI TAWHAI'S RETIREMENT. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1853, 30 January 1880, Page 2
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