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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 330, 15 June 1878, Page 2

The N.Z. Times, in an article deprecating the patronizing style of Sir George Grey, and the manner in which be takes credit for the good work being done by the llon Mr Sheehan, and of the hampering .effect this sort of action must have on the Native Minister, concludes—lf the Premier could be induced to remember that he is not now the Governor of this colony, exercising, as of old, the power of the Crown as the ruler of the native people, and that these people, having lived fast since that time, are greatly changed, and can measure his present altered position accurate!}’ —he might be induced to consent to step aside, and allow native work to be done by those who are really’ responsible for it. If the Native Minister were now seen to be free to act, and to be zealously working for the peace and prosperity of the North Island as well as the South, the Government would probably find encouragement and assistance, where it now meets distrust and active or passive resistance ; but the work must be real work undertaken for the benefit of all, and not for the glorification of one, and the right man must bo set to do it. Great wants proceed from great wealth ; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.