THE LONDON SPECTATOR ON NEW ZEALAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 746, 23 December 1869, Page 3

THE LONDON SPECTATOR ON NEW ZEALAND.

Nothivg can be worse th in the accounts from New Zealand, both military and political. The last telegram, dated Adelaide, August 12, says the rebellion is spreading, and great alarm prevails. The more detailed news received from the Colony, and dated a out July 10, tells of a change of Ministry,—a change much for the worse, both in men and measures. The programme, indeed, of the Ministry of Mr Fox is not only bad, it is lu licrous. Ho proposes to send two Comissioners to England to negotiate for two regiments for the colony, for which New Zealand will consent to pay the £lO per man demanded by (Ireat Brit tin, if it cannot persuade the Home Government to grant them on more favorable terms. In other woris, the infatuated colony will promise to pay £*>o,odo a year for two regiments, in the mili ary disposition and use of which it will h .ve no voice, and whenever they are withdrawn, will leave the colony as helpless and unlit lor self-reliance as before! Did any one t>ver hear of bitterer obstinacy in thus returning over and over again to a policy that has not only repeatedly f die t, but failed so disastrously that half the burden now overwhelming the colony is duo to it? We suppose the Home Government will grant the request, if made, for though it absolutely refuses pecuniary aid in any useful shape it seems almost anxious to tempt the colonies into borrowing regiments which are of no use to them, by offering them at not much above naif cost. t£very soldier so sent out costs us, we believe, at least £7O, besides transport, so that while our Colonial Oifice goes on asking indignantly, " Wny tax the hemly. raxed British people for the richer colonists? ' it does tax Uiem all along, out in a nauner carefully adapted to secure that what the .Englishman loses the colonist shall not gam.