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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 763, 21 February 1870, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND AFFAIRS. [Melbourne Argus.] The Imperial .authorities who rafused assistance and "chopped logic" instead, when they had already heard that torch and rouiahawk were busy on the frontier of the helpless Colony, are now, the trouble being over, honoring the same Colony with empty compliments ! The Fixing Squadron is paying the island a visit, and the list of ports at which the royal ships were to touch has been considerably extended for the gratification of the inhabitants. The visitors will be received as they ought to be. No fear of that. Admiral Hornby is not Earl Granville; his good flag-ship is not the Colonial Office, and that proud old banner fluttering at the peak is welcome to the emigrant's eye and dear to his memory. But what a mockery it seems on the part of the Imperial Government to send us a squadron of battle-ships when war is over, after withholding the service of their sailors on this station and of their soldiers in this garrison vhen war was ab our doors! And all the blank cartridge which will doubtless be fired away for our amusement —will it not remind us that when the safety of life and property was the object on hand, and not amusement, we asked for the means of defence, and could not get them? The bafc talion of regulars is recalled; but if the garrison is to go, why not also the Governor? If we can dispense Imperial assistance we can dispense with Imperial interference? The above sentiments we are not framing in Melbourne; these are not the words of people at a distance from the community aggrieved. They are the sentiment and words current in men's mouths at the present moment in New Zealand. Lord Granville has been told that his negative policy was strictly logical, and from certain other premises, which, more widely and truly than his, embrace the merits of the case, the indignation of the New Zealanders is logical, and " strictly logical" also. [South Australian Register.! If Lord Granville were told to measure the terror and the expense of Fenianism in Ireland by the ratio of O'Donovan Rossa's followers to the ™hole population, he might perceive the absurdity of the standard by which he estimates the Te Kooti gang. In Australia we know what a single bushranger can do in a sparsely populated district, and we can imagine how much the danger would 'be increased by transforming him into a bloodthirsty fanatical savage. Saying to the colonists, as the Times and Larl Granville persistently do, "You are nearly 200,000 to 30,000, why don't you light it out?" the New Zealand Government might retort on his bottle-holders, "You are nearly 30,000,000 to 3,000, why can't you stamp Fenianism out?"