THE NEW ZEALAND WAR.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 470, 15 April 1867, Page 3

THE NEW ZEALAND WAR.

[LonSon Standaid.J Tue New Zealand war may henceforth be considered as a chronic malady, which, as it has continued to defy all diagnosis. Seems deicrmiiica to bailie all regular! modes of treatment. We must accent ui as part of the price which i-mgiana has I to pay for the easy possession of two ol the finest islands in the world. Bv withisland, we have, indeed, rendered it imjpossiD'e that there should ever be agam juliuiiii'r griral 1 tliat winch General Cameron tw,ducted in ! the W a;ku!o country; hat we have no! | prevented, and cannot prevent, the quarrei lof the two races dragging itself along and j bn eking out now and then, and here and there, so long as there are two races to | quanv! at all. It is out of the fertile ioUuj«et—land —that all future Maori quarrels will arise; and it is impossible to see janj cxiu is* ibom loog *5 Uitre

Maoris ieft in New Zealand. The passiqti of land proprietorship burns as fierce!/ id the bosom of the New Zealand savage as of the Irish Celt. He may have a thousand times more laud than he can possibly turn to use, but he will not part witti an acre if he can help it. The Maoris, numbering barely 60,000 of all ages and seres, who are yearly diminishing, hold, even alter the late confiscation, perhaps three-fourth* of the soil of the island. The English settlement is nearly double in numbers, and is increasing. Kuw cau it be supposed that the two races can continue ia amity if the inferior persists in excluding its masters from extending their borders } We should never forget, when we would accuse ourselves of any harshness towards the Maoris, that New Zealand was the l first new country ever occupied by a Eure* pean race in which the native right to ths absolute property of the soil was, from tbs first, acknowledged and respected. Up to the date of the last Waikato war not a single acre had been acquired by the ! British Government in the northern island jof New Zealand, except by purchase from | the natives, and with their consent. Norcaa 'it affect the argument that the original price was in some cases very low Whatever it was, it was the market price, if since thea the lands have become more valuable, it is simply and solely because of the British occupation. At first the Maoris were only too eager to dispose of their unpro* Stable valh.va —the complaint against the Government in those days being that it did not buy lands quick enough. Now, the policy v.Li.di weave sorry to gay hag been applauded and justified by some of their English sympathisers is to prevent any land whatever, beina sold to the British Government, ift order to check the development of the European colony. Ofcours*' this is a policy winch cannot be pursued without perpetual quarrels between tho two races, and equally, of course, the ex» tension of the British race is not to be impeded. The best, if not the only, assurance of ultimate peace in New Zealand is fmmisheJ by the census re!urns lately published, which prove that, in spite of all impediments, the British population of the is.and is steadly advancing and ths Maoris rapidly decreasing. Of the uiti« mate solution of the problem it is nature : winch inn* taken charge.