"PUNCIL IN CANTURBURY."

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 266, 17 May 1865, Page 3

"PUNCIL IN CANTURBURY."

oypiCMt on Dir. It Wood, .the eaocessful negotiator of the Three Million Loan, is to he despatched to arrange terms of pease-with the Pai > Marine natives; Hi* friends need .’not be •apprehensive of his:personal safety, as it is certain that neither his brains nor his bead ara coveted by these misguided fanatics. LATEST INTBTitIOENOE VitOU THE V:!ONT. Camp tfukiwhaka, April 23. The native troops have not returned froin their succesful attack on Ngalanmnipotatoa pa. They are reported to have quite rooted out the enemy in that direction. spofia opima are saih to be quire in prop i.-tion to our expectations Two prisoners have already bee.isent in, who were furnished with blankets, their anna restored to them and liberated, at the wish of Sir George Grey. The liuropeau contingent are still motionless, and scurvy has made its appearance amongst them. Lieutenant General Sir Duncan Cameron. K. 0.8., is suffering severely from Gout. THU BRITISH LION AND THE COLONIAL CUB. Whatever may be said of the faults of our character as a people, we, at least, cannot be accused of national vanity. There is not a nation under the sun less given to boast of the might, ma jesty, and resourses of their native count ry than ourselves. A Frenchman never omits an opportunity of exulting over the destiny of “ LEmpire,'’ which is generally “ peace a german never lets slip a chance to troll out some base nonsenee about bis “Vaterland;" an American is continually calculating that bis free and enlightened “ United States” are about to whip all creation into everlasiing splinters—Yes, sir’ee hiss! lint an Englishman’s modesty never allows him to do more than to hint, distantly, that the British Lion .in whom is typified the British Army and Navy, may possibly be on hand if required. It is, therefore, the more painful to us to sec that really magnificent animal trotted out muzzled, for derision to a liardfnt of New Zealand natives, who laugh at bis beard - It is difficult to believe that this is the same Briliih 1 ion whose anger, the nations have long since settled among themselves, mav not be withstood with impunity. If we not only too fully convinced of his identify, we should be inclined to call him the British Jackal, as the most important of his duties in this country appears to have been the replenishing' of the wallets of those whose interest it has bee ■. to make use of him for that purpose. Under this course of treatment, the unfortunate King of Beasts has long been languishing, and notwith-staudi-g a recent removal to the South for a change of air, there seems to he no prospect •if improvment; If Her Majesty would he graciously pleased to recall, and, at the same time, in recognition of the distinguished services of Sir George Grey and Sir Duncan Cameron, make each a Peer in Great. Britain, and consequently to disappear, from New Z( aland, the Colonial Cub, uml- r the guidance of less distinguished but more interested hands, would make a strong effort to retrieve the reputation jeopardised by the mismanagement of bis father.