THE BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 43, 24 April 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND.

(From the Net on Examiner. The following passage is an extract from a sermon delivered by the Bishop of New Zealand at Christchurch, Nelson, on Sunday, the 16t!x instant. We have the best authority for stating that, in using these words, Bishop Selwyn had in his mind the speech of Cannon stowed at Doughs, which has been going the round of the newspapers:— “ I must not be supposed to be speaking now of acts of violence, injustice, or oppression, of which Christian nations have been guilty, as : ' such charges lay at the door of this colony. Exaggerated statements drawn from other countries may have been appl'ed to us as if we had been guilty of the same evil deeds. In defence of the colonists of New Zealand, of whom I am one, I say most distinctly and solemnly that I have never known, since the colony began, a single act of wilful injustice or oppression committed by any one in authOiity against a New Zealander. It may have been difficult to persu-de some few individuals that the natives were entitled to equal rights with ourselves, but in practice their rights and liberties have been maintained inviolate, and the result is, that the New Zealanders, almost to a man look upon it as their highest privilege to be united with ourselves in one faith and in one law.”