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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 107, 8 May 1869, Page 2

The- -TfiibPHETic Letter of the Rev. J. Whitklet;— • The Sydney Morning Herald com..ffii^tii]s._i U i.t.li & Je;ter-flttli£.£ei£.JU-Vy.liiteley says, "Theburderi of thisieiter is'tosKowthat the colonists tore be^t^_de^er|e.d' under circumstances the most 4 likei^tp'bffataV "England 7has~OT*tim«d"l^'^e^^ * ' with most cr;u|J^ force,.^a^jtiag^anspiried the hostile nativVVTjygivingtllenDwlßion to suppose that if* England be not helpless, iOs™ indifferent The alternative" 'was' inaefedfo^ered^tq^permit the military ?to remain if paid iorf; >|Bu£; the condition was impossible, We cannot ffcupp^se . ,thuY.parts of New Zealand remote fromfithe seat of war would charge themselves with a" burden which Englanil refuse.l to bear. Besides this, the military ware all a'ong' disgusted' "wjth the service, ami although they gave professional assistance when called upon to do so,, they were always glad to get away. Everyone may'readily understand how much. less popular would be a service such as 'iTew Zealand required, ; than the Abytsinian war, which not only was intended to dazzle the natives of India, tut 'to attract the eyes of Europe and the world; It was, however, injudicious to withdraw the soldiers from . an unfinished war. Having begun 1 the , battle, the conquest ought to have been concluded, and the Colony left, at all events, a,t peace." : How thbt Serve Rebels in' New Caledonia. — On .the 20th, February, the. Governor ,'df^New Caledonia published a decree by which the tribe of the Tendianou9,or Ouebias, was formally dissolved, and declared to be expelled from .its territory. All the tribes in the .northern ' part of the colony were specially forbidden to give them shelter/under pain of being" treated as "rebels. This extreme measure hasbeentakten in consequence of the murders and hostile facts' committed by these : Teudianous, on the respectives dates of ■ the 7th,l6th, and 29th October, 1868. ; A movement is_ making in Southland for annexation to Otago.