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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 18, 20 May 1867, Page 115

Nbw Zealand at Peace. —The Sydney Mail, April 20, thus comments on the news "from this colony“ From New .Zealand we hear that the colonists are at peace if they did but know it it. Fighting is practically over, and all that is now needed fo.repose is the general conviction that it 4 over. Many squatters have so much confidence in the continuance of peace that they are freely renting, for pastoral purposes, land belonging to the natives, and trusting themselves and their stock there This is a very good arrangement, as it interests both parties in the preservation of peace -The Maori gets his rent, and the squatter gbts occupation of the land. The small settlers, however, ; do not seem to be so confident, ..especially those " h ° have settled as military colonists on the frontier lands. The confiscated land therefore, is not occupied to the extent that natives may consider that the act of confiscation remains incomplete. But with thedncrease of population the !and wfilget taken up by somebody. The Governor, with his usual bad luck, has managed to quarrel with Gen. Chute about the departure of the troops. The Governor does not much like their going •way, but the colonists do not want to pay for them, so the Home Government resolved on thmr removal. The colonists will do very well when they are left to themselves, and they, would have done better if thev had been left to themselves ah along.” r'^ HE X I ? r 0 C' aoS3, ~The Sydney Mail "Of the 27th April has the following —‘‘ A letter from the Secretary for the Colonies, received by the last maxi, encloses a copy of a warrant extending the Victoria Cross to volunteers in New Zealand and the other colonies who may have distinguished themselves by personal valour; Hitherto this honor :which,.; as a. badge of personal valor as sacredly reserved for real merit,, is eagerly j coveted—has been resteioted to the royal troops. It is now thrown open to all colonial forces who. being enrobed under regular f authority; .wm it in any operations undertaken;for the suppression of rebellion or for repelling invasion. W'e hope that no future occasion may arise to give, the opportunity for earnZealand we trust that rebellion is becoming a thihg of the past, and throughoutJ;he -whole bfo.ustra* may never become a thing of the future;. But shduldstern itself :jorformshing candidates for the Wto! r^^Oß^ an f ot dethe chwacfor of the British