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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 755, 24 January 1870, Page 4

ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND. [Prom the Melbourne Telegraph.") What will they say to the mail news in ISTew Zealand] Our much afflicted sister in the present disordered state of her finances, might have saved herself the expense of despatching her three plem'porentaries to England. The Imperial Government has heard of all the horrors it was anticipated would result from the rising of the Maori Jring, and has wayered not a moment in its determination to withdraw the troops Earl Granville is as fully convinced that colonists become accnsiomed to massacres as loose physiologists are that eels get used to skinning. England has neither men nor money to offer the colony, but only advice. That she pours out with a generous profusion, but we seriously question whether it was worth dispatching a special embassy to procure any more of a like quality. " Make friends with Te Kooti," suggests Earl Granville, forgetful that the consent of the wolf has to be obtained, even, if the lambs are willing to lie down with him. " Exterminate the rebels," cry out the anti-Exeter-hall journals, ignoring the fact that ex termination is a game at which two races can play. "Teach them a severe lesson " is the general advice of the friendly press, not remembering that it is the very thing the colonists, with the British army to boot,i have been for years essaying to accomplish, with a remarkable want of success, There are some pupils, it should be remembered it is impossible to drill aught into. The mother ; country may be assured that New Zealand is quite capable of cooking her Maori hare to perfection. The only thing she requires is assistance to catch the wily quadruped.

[From the Wanganui Chronicle.] The Australasian puts the precise relationship in which this colony, and indeed all the colonies, now stand to Britain v ery distinctly in a brief sentence or two. "The principal colonial authority of the empire," we find our contemporary saying, "if it can longer be called an empire, has virtually declared that the colonies may hang on to Eng land as long as they choose, but they owe no duty of loyalty tp the Crown, and the Crown owes no duty of protection to the colonies. The future authority of each colony is vested in the hands of a bare majority of its population. There is no system and no unity. K a majority in a colony therefore desire the representative of English rule to take his departure, his Excellency, be he who he may, will be bound to retire. Such is the present policy of the British Government, approved of, it would seem, ]by the British press." The fact being so, and we do not see how any one can jdispute it, Mr Huike's petition in re the Governor [which we published on Thursday], has at lease opportuneness to justify its appearance. Our Governor is at this moment, through the action of the Imperial authorities, not by any doings in the colony, merely a Governor at wilj.