WITHDRAWAL OF THE TROOPS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 470, 15 April 1867, Page 2 (Supplement)

WITHDRAWAL OF THE TROOPS.

A practical illustration of the intentions of the Home Government in respect of the protection it means to afford to her children from the assaults of savage races, is afforded us in Hawke’s Bay by tiie removal of the small garrison that has hitherto been located amongst us, —for it has been • ur tank to chronicle the departure ol that small detachment which has been stationed at Gore Browne Barracks’ in the ‘Lord Ashley’ for Auckland. 1 ea route for home, on the evening ol Wednesday Ist; and we now report the arrival in port on Friday last ol that which was stationed at Te Wairoa, to await an opportunity of following their comrades; after which we shall he left without a single man ol the Imperial army. And we have reason to believe that, as with out Province, so will it be with the whole Cohmy at an early date. This is forcing the policy of selfreliance on the Colony with a vea geance ; and the mother country may say it is hut taking us at our word. Perhaps so; hut it may well he doubted :f any of the self reliant party ever seriously supposed that they would be so literally understood, and their doctrine so practically applied as is being done. "\V e rattier think that one and all believed that though we might decline to pay an unjust and extortionate sum tor the I caih'ii of an Imperial fmee amongst us, still that that force aeuld not be withdrawn ; but ! nave lived to du-ower ihtir mi-cake,j I ami iind that the threat so ioog sinci | |..,ade by Biitain, of “Bo pay, n. j I: roans.” is to ho c.irri-d out, to find

I •» ~ " ’■ lot:it. Wo si: ill I not now enter upon a uisiciiisi ni uu the <|tu;£ti<d: -:f r.h.J value ( I he services of the lan trial lonics, nor of our own ability io d.-foi;.! ourselves against fi.e lawless race l>\ vVi;icii we are surroMided, au-i Iron. Time to time tbr«-at<->uai. If we bau to o.e it, it Ai;i u ■aidless be aunt, though it r.ecessatiiy must tax tu. energies to lee utmost limit. Perhaps, however, flic-ordeal through which we hiive to pass will nut be altogether wit/ "Ut its beiuil.i to us in iueirectly working a reform in the management (-1 affairs. It is not too much to say that as a people we are 'axel not only up to but beyond lm limit of endurance ; for have we not, every one of us—man, woman, and child —to pay per head each a sum el -ix pounds sterling for government, including tne interest et tne Wat* debt, and the support uf an army of no. re tfju.ii lilt feu hundred official servants. To do nn.-re than this is out of the (juestion—neither is it needed. Py di-peusing with some twu-ti.irds ul idiese oliicia; servants, who can doubt that we should be well aide —wita our elastic resources, of which e-ur states nieii ate so proud to boast —to work out ;.ii the principles of true self reliance. We speak advisedly when we sap that it is not the war b an that ima cripples the energies of the Colony; it is not the defence of our settlements from the inroads of the rebels. The incubus of the Colony is Gppicialdoai |V\ bile bearing that burden, of a ceri Unity we are powerless fur progress, 1 prosperity, or protection from 1.. e rej bed iiaoii, The necessity for selfdefence will, we trust, b-ice a reform, and a reduction of the extmvogant cost ot Government. Xr.wc Mrri.r, —Too Ivtsir.rrn of of a \ery Ijiii.r u; 'o ro "i ins xycek, and nsec appcamtsoc. Tue suipnu-nS of coal ha., also Ltou much snirul.T thou iou:i). in.- (jua; 'imr about iO.tsdO to as —A.SUd lor Sydney, 3,531 lor Melbourne, 2,iiH for South Austral!;!, 1,037 lor f\iv. Zealand, SCG for Singapore, TJO lor Brisbane, and SoS lor steamers and home consumption. ! —,’>ww«Ue Chronicle, March 3U.