THE SEPARATION MOVEMENT AND SIR GEORGE GREY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 295, 7 August 1865, Page 2

THE SEPARATION MOVEMENT AND SIR GEORGE GREY.

[Trom the Wellington Independent.] The despatch to which we have alluded in theproceeding article closes with an allusion to the Separation movement, from which will be seen that while the Weld Ministry have opposed it and the Imperial Government will give it no countenance, yet Sir George Grey expresses himself in its favor. In a despatch to Mr Cardwell, of January sth, enclosing the Auckland petition, he writes : I only received this petition yesterday, and therefore, fear I shall not by this mail, have time to make a full report upon the important question raised by it; by the next mail I will, however, transmit such a report, and in the meantime, I will only say that, 1 think unless some such arrangement as is prayed for by the Provincial Councifof Auckland is carried out, it will be impossible to bring to a satisfactory termination the difficulties prevailing in this country. To this Mr Cardwell replies, on March 27th.—

lii the last part of their memorandum of the 3Uth December, your Advisers deprecate the division of the colony proposed in the Resolutions of the Auckland Provincial Council, expressing their belief that such a measure would probably meet the determined opposition of every other part of the colony ; that it would take away the security for the future of the Maori race, which depends on the influence of persons (in the southern provinces) removed from local passions and interests, and that it would destroy hopes of the future prosperity of New Zealand as a united Colony, which ere not unworthy of consideration on the part of the Mother Country. In forwarding to me the Auckland Resolutions you have, on the contrary, intimated your own opinion that “unless some such arrangement is carried out, it will be impossible to bring to a satisfactory termination the difficulties prevailing in the Colony,” and you inform me that by the next mail you will transmit a full report upon this important question. In the expectation of receiving such a report from you I will say no more than that her Majesty’s Government see no reason, as at present advised, for giving any encouragement to any such proposal.