SUPPLEMENTARY SUMMARY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 60, 21 August 1862, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY SUMMARY.

(From the i\ ew Zealand Advertiser, August 11 .) As a Supplementary Mail fur England and the Colonies will be despatched to-morrow by the Airedale, we take advantage of the circumstance to give to-day the opinions of the New Zealand Press on the defeat of the Fox Ministry, which could not have been published on Tuesday, except iu a supplement. The course we have adopted will meet our convenience, and will be no detriment to our Summary subscribers, who will be supplied with both Papers at the price we formerly charged for one Summary, besides having twodays’later intelligence. lE,will not be known till next week whether the present Ministry will meet with the support of the majority of the House. Though most of the members of the Cabinet represent Middle Island constituencies, onehalf of the Cabinet are North Island men, while the Premier himself resided in this Province for many years—first at AYellington as Colonial Secretary, and next at Napier as Resident Magistrate and Grown Lands Commissioner, so though—as we find it stated—it may be dnreasonable to suppose that Southern Island men understond native affairs with that fullness which is requisite to to frame and carry out a native policy, it is

the other would he favorable to a patclied-up peace, which would leave the.rebels the acknowledged masters of the field. There is no one in the Colony who advocates war; but the majority of the settlers believe that this may be better averted by maintaining a determined attitude, thau by giving in on all occasions to the whims, and submitting, in every instance, to the outrages of the natives. It would be a great misfortune for the Fox Ministry to be again re-instated ; and that this is the opinion of the country is shown by the extracts we publish to-day from the leading journals of the Colony, but we are yet in the dark as to what policy the present Ministry will adopt, and whether it will differ very materially from that of their predecessors. Mr. Domett stated last night, that it was the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill to enable the natives to sell or lease'their land to whom they pleased, a right being given to the Governor to reserve portions where the natives wished to dispose of the whole. We suppose that a joolicy of this kind must be adopted, but unless care be taken that no Crown Grants are issued except on the payment of a round sum in shape of fees, how is the sum to be raised to open up the land when purchased, and introduce that stream of immigrant labor, which alone can give it more than a nominal value? It appears to us that the House of liepresentatives has constituted itself the special guardian of the Maori race and that colonists are out of place, at all events in the North Island.