ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 569, 15 January 1851, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the “New Zealand Spectator.'' Poneke, Hanuere 11, 1851. _ Let these my words be read by Governor Kerb ! Let him imagine they are the thoughts of the spirit of a Maori who had become wise, who had become as a white man, and considered in deep reflection the things that have passed in the dealings of the white man with the Maorisalthough the wounds have been healed bv thp Governor, and they would no more be remembered but for reading in the nupaper of the man of medicine for Saturday, what it was said E Tako and other natives answered when they heard of my letter of the sth Hanuere. My writing is put down to be that of the Governor. This, O Editor! is not true. He knows no more who made the letter than the Ductor knows how much utu he might get to make his pen write backwards. I have pride at my writing being thought of as the Governor’s. But would he who sends his writing to the Queen, waste the work of his hand by answering the sour man’s windy words, which are without truth? Oh no! But although to my former pukapuka there is really no reply, the words said to be L lake’s. —“‘The white men are good; they pay for the land “No good the Governor,” Arc., &c., —set me thinking on the daysof old; and I remembered how the Pakehas that first came to Port Nicholson thought to buy from the ignorant Maoris hundreds of mites of land for glass beads, J ews’ harps, old muskets, and the like; and how they told the Maoris, that in addition to this payment, the tenth of all the land in the town and country would be reserved for them. This the Maoris thought was good, although they did not think they got enough of payment for that the white men took; and they thought they would always have enough of land like the white people to live on at Port Nicholson for ever. There was then no Governor Kere, or no good man of the Queen • and how did it fall out? Why, that in a short time the white men wished to turn the Maoris out of their pahs and other grounds, and where then was their tenth that was chosen forthem? •• as there a tenth o f the land chosen in trood parts on Thorndon Flat, although I say thebest is there? Was there a tenth of the land chosen on the Beach, and on the best parts of Te Aro’ And with our land for cultivations—Was there a tenth chosen at the Hutt, or the Porirua lu ° r at karori? And were not some of the best numbers thrown away on land that is perfectly useless? And did they not say at the ’ir*? * *• se '. et tion—sometimes of bad land— Oh this will do welt enough for the niggers?” And is not much of the country land for the 1 ott Nicholson Natives chosen for them in the swamps of Manawatu, belonging to a different tiibe, where it can be of no manner of use to t.iem, and that was never bought by the white man? Oh, there .was no good Governor in those days, and this was the work of the Doctoi s men. Why should we expect better from them now, if they had the power instead of the Queen s Governor? Did not the Doctor’s Kangaiira himself require the Governor some tiu>e ago to fight against the Maoris, and take all their waste lands from them without payment? And was he not angry because the Governor refused to be unjust? If there was no Governor or men of the Queen to prevent the evil thoughts of the bitter man and his Rangitira from becoming laws, would the Maoris nave received payment for land at Port Nicholson, at Porirua, at Wairau, at Rangitikei, or V/anganui? They would not; but there would have been war and bloodshed, until either the 1 akehas or Maoris remained alone in New Zealand. And can E Tako say, “No good the Governor?’ Why, where is the good the Maoris have not received from him? Would they now have their pahs at Te Aro, Pipitea, Kaiwarra, Ngahauranga, or Waiwetu, but for him? Would the Maoris of Port Nicholson have much of their country lands or cultivations ut for him . or the Ngatiawas their lands at rorirua. And are not many Maoris obliged now Io ask him to get them more land to live on, which he alone can obtain for them, but which ought to have been chosen formerly for their tenth ? Who has given them horses and carts, employed them on the roads, and laugh* them to be industrious? Who has built hospitals to relieve their sick, and renewed the promise of the Queen to them, that their livesano property would always be protected, and th a * they s.tould live in peace, and fight no more? And can E Tako think of all this, and say be is no good? It is false. If he said it, the Ductor must have given him some waipiraUi ot hitter medicine indeed that can affectthcheart- » uh Governor! preserve ns from him,'this ma" g

of wind ! who puffs out words he knows not the meaning of. . We know he wants some utu to prevent his bile rising periodically. We have seen what he and his masters have done for us on the only occasion they had the power, before the Queen sent her Governor; and we know what they would wish to do if they could ; — how little they would think of the injustice of taking the waste lands from the Maoris without payment. Therefore I say, let not the Queen give up New Zealand to them; but let her always appoint men to the Assembly that is to be. to speak truth against the smoke of men who have become drunk and giddy from elevating themselves in imagination to high and publicplaces; and believe themselves—ignorant place-seeking quacks though they be — able to govern those who witness their intoxication from their supposed elevation, only to laugh at and despise them.

Wi REMU T. c P.S. —I enclose the syllabus required, which you 5 may publish for the Doctor's information or not as ( you think fit. No. 1 will contain Introduction—Origin of the i Faction—Disappointment of the Doctor at not receiving the appointment of Colonial Secretary of New Munster—Subsequent bitterness and spleen ! against Sir George Grey for overlooking his merits— 1 The Doctor nearly yielding to temptation and on the point of becoming a Nominee but for Mr. , M‘D., the late Banker—Cause of the Banker’s constant animosity against the Government—Description of the New Zealand Company’s Agent, remarkable in no particular but for being a sneering factious person, who could not endure the superior talents of the Governor lor his having dealt out justice to the natives in the place of seizing all their waste lands for the New Zealand Company as he recommended—The Faction principally composed at first of the two last named individuals, both servants of public companies and possessing no actual interest in the wellbeing of the colony, or no influence in themselves separate from their official station—lmmense influence unjustifiably exerted by them over the public, the one as Banker, the other as Company’s Agent, having much power in allotment of compensation lands to settlers, &c. — Subservience of many of the settlers to these two men—Abuse of Government officers by Mr. F. supposed to be to draw attention from his own case, which was worse than that of any of those he abused, as he drew his .£'looo per annum from the future land reserves of the colony and did nothing for it—lntended desertion of the colony by Mr. F. as soon as his salary ceased—Mr. F.’s influence over the Doctor, the whipper-in of the Faction ; humbugging the latter by appointing him hissuccessor to an office he well knew would soon end—Land jobbery of Mr. F. with his partner at Nelson—His influence over the Independent newspaper at Wellington—The little brown man, the tail end or wedge of the Faction, his origin and rise; and an ' account of his forced election to the Jockey Club by the Doctor. The subsequent lectures will embrace a retrospective view of the relative good done by the Company, through their Agents, and the Government, • especially under Sir G. Grey—Of the uses to which ■ the enormous sum of .£236,000, raised on the se- | curity of the future land revenue of the colony, has | been applied bj’ the Company, and the good the I colony has derived from it, especially considered in reference to Mr. F.’s salary—Folly of the people | who have sumbitted to be led blindly by, and com- | mitted their most important interests to, two men g without real interest in the colony, one or both of j. whom are on the point of leaving it—Probability 3 of the people being left for several years longer | without representative government, in consequence | of refusing what was within their reach, and <leB manding what it was impossible the Imperial Government could grant, and what they can never •4 get as long as there are two races in the country — Ridiculous farces enacted at the meetings of the sofe called Constitutional Association, &c.