E N G L I S H N E W S.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 213, 10 September 1869, Page 3

E N G L I S H NEW S.

0 — - NEW ZEALAND WAR, A true remedy, says the Pall Mall Gazette, fbr the New Z -aland difficulties, as it appears to us, is one which w.e can only point out with very little hope of its adoption. In well ordered republics, in a time of crisis like the present, the established resource has been the temporary appointment of a dictatorship. There is no hope that so loosely constituted a body as the New Zealand federation will ever resort to so stringent but unpopular a measure as the concentration of the functions of government in a ruler or board armed for the time with full executive and financial powers. But what New Zealand can scarcely do for herself, the mother country might, if so inclined, do for her ; ,and, as we firmly believe, with the general approval of sensible people in the colony and out of it. Let the Northern Island, or so much of it as is in peril of Maori insurrection, be separated from the rest of the colony ; let it be placed, for a time to be limited by law, under a governor armed witb both .civil and military power ; aid him with a small permanent council for necessary purposes of legislation ; place at his disposal, for that time, the provincial revenue of the northern provinces and the federal revenue of the whole colony, imposing on him, of course the liability to return so much as properly belongs to their share to the Southern provincial Goverments, which may be left to conduct their own affairs in their own way; let all available resources, subject to these conditions, be placed in the hands of the Governor, who, for time being, should be responaible to the Home Government undertake the charge of putting down the Maoris aud preventing the recurrence of outbreaks at ouce so disastrous and really contemptible.