THE Hawke's Bay Times. NAPIER, WEDNESDAY, 1st MARCH, 1865.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 233, 1 March 1865, Page 2

THE Hawke's Bay Times. NAPIER, WEDNESDAY, Ist MARCH, 1865.

Elsewhere in our columns will be found an extract from the Sydney Mornimg Herald bearing upon New Zealand affairs. It is o f importance to us to know the light in which these tilings are regarded by our neighbors, and we always look with no ordinary interest to the aspect in' which they are presented in the Sydney Morning Herald, because that paper is evidently well informed concerning them, and fearlessly outspoken in giving expression to its opinion. It is, moreover of great authority and influence at home which renders it a matter of consequence that its views should be correct, and its opinion well-founded. We have already stated our opinion on the subject of Mr. Cardwell’s despatches, in brief, that he, Sir George, was to consider native affairs as matters of Imperial snterest, and to act if so it pleased him, in opposition to his ministerial advisers, as also that the very vagueness of the terms in which the despatches were written wonld afford him sufficient excuse for acting contrary to his instructions if he thought proper, as indeed in the late reversal of his policy he has to some extent done. It is satisfactory to find that

this view is taken by our contemporary also, who plainly shows that this vagueness is necessary in. such a document in order to give a sufficient amount of latitude, in its interpretation. We quite agree with our contemporary that if tbe temporisingp’dicy so lungandso lately pursued had succeeded in producing ever so shallow a peace, that. compliments would have been showered upon Sir George Grey even as they were on a former occasion—he wonld then have left this colony a mere smothered volcano, whose internal fires were ever ready to burst forth through the superficial crust he had succeeded in spreading over it; but happily for the colony this could not he. and we who know that failure deserves, or at least ensures, censure, expect, when his tortuous policy becomes understood at home, that anything but compliments will he bis reward. It has always been a mystery to us that Sir George could for one moment # suppose that any success could attend this policy, every act of which could but plunge us as a colony more and more deeply in difficulties. The native rebels, paid to he quiet, would only be so upon the satisfaction of still larger and larger demands, until to satisfy them would he altogether out of the question. Place and pension could not by the most generous (?) be found lor every claimant. The award of tbe Governor’s bounty or patronage could only ultimately produce feelings of jealousy, and even the attempt to keep them quiet by such means would only act as a stimulus to actual outrreak by assuring them of our weakness and fear of them.

But if Sir George Grey will fail to receive credit .for bis late policy on account of its failure, assuredly be will not receive credit fur bis present policy—first, because it is rather due to others whom be prevented from carrying it into operation ; and because of the delay be has shown ia adopting it himself. Such a policy was that of the late Governor, who had already matters in train for a speedy settlement of the difficulties of the colony, when the whole was inverted and involved by Sir George who, it to be hoped, does at length, see the utter hopelessness of setting matters at rest in any other way than that inaugurated by his predecestor, that is to use force when force only cau prevail.