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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 187, 12 August 1864, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Army and Navy Gazette sardonically chuckles at the prospect of the colonists being left to themselves. It observes : “ The next Maori war must not be fought by British troops nor paid for out of British taxesso says the Times, and we are glad of it. Small comfort to New Zealanders, now undergoing extinction by British troops paid for by Britsh tax-payers—small hope for the colonist who believes he has a right to call on British soldiers to light and taxpayer to pay him, to extinguish the aborigines whenever their claims to their own soil are in the way of prospecting or farming. If the promises of the Government are kept now, we shall have no more aggressions, and if the policy of the Times be carried out, we shall have no fears of Maori wars, for the colonists will take care they do not provoke collision till the natives are expended by the civilizin" influences brought to bear against them.” Miss Bye in New Zealand. —We understand that Miss Eye is concluding satisfactory arrangements with the Governments of Wellington, Nelson, Picton, and Hawke's Bay for the chartering of a commissioner’s ship to carry female immigrants to the above ports. lieception Committees are also very successfully formed, and preparations made for the safety of the girls after their arrival, the nature of which will be more fully explained by Miss Rye on her return to England. — Times, May 19. A Comporting Reflection. — First Citizen, (loq.) “O, what paper have you got there, neighbor, this morning?” Second Citizen; “The Haicke's Bay Times, to be sure ; what other should I have ?” First ditto ; Sorry to hear it. Blackguard paper that—always hammering at the squatters and the government.” Second ditto: “ May be, but it’s not so bad as the Herald, anyhow.”