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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 268, 22 May 1865, Page 3

• It should he distinctly understood that in this war with New Zealanders we have not to deal with the whole, of them. In our colonization intercourse with the aboriginal races, from America down to Africa and Australia, there have ever been found tribes, who, either from the inSuence of some chief more enlightened than others of his order, or from some rude inborn admiration of the plough, have ever been more willing to welcome civilization than their fellows, and .to this rule there Juts been no exception in New Zealand. Indeed, from the days of onr. first acquaintance with the colony down to the present time, the Maori race, in its bearing and demeanour towards colonists, has been divided into three, and three almost numerically equal parties, namely, those who have been more or less hostile to the colonist, and whose ranks supply the rebels; those who have been more or less friendly to the colonist, and who have against their fellows more than once aided him with their arms; and those who, between the two, may be called'the neutrals, and who, in “differenbes’* between the races carry their strength to that side which may happen to appear to them the strongest.