AUCKLAND OPINION ON NATIVE POLICY.

Patea Mail, 9 June 1882, Page 4

AUCKLAND OPINION ON NATIVE POLICY.

The Herald after complimenting Sir G. Grey and Mr Sheehan for their action in supporting the Native policy of the Government, expresses a belief that the success of the bold course adopted by the Hon. Mr Bryce at Parihaka, renders him practically independent of Parliamentary indemnities, public opinion having dealt with the matter so clearly already that the Assembly could only follow in its wake. The article concludes with a reference to the future treatment of Te Whiti and Tohu ■“ Let Te Whiti and Tohu, therefore, be cared for. With those men we have really no quarrel any more than with the inmates of lunatic asylum ; but as in the case of these inmates we know that they are safest under mild restraint. Nor are >ve alone in the knowledge. Opposition members who speak so flippantly of justice and right, know it as well as we do. Were they at this moment in power they would not dare, and they have been told so by the two leading members of their own last Government, that they dare not do otherwise than the present Government proposes to do. Surely there, is some limit to the exigencies of party warfare. We can hardly believe that our own people would be found vilifying the policy which has become a necessity for the colony merely because it is administered by the party opposed to themselves. Experience has taught us that there is no want of men and without the colony ready to accuse us of the vilest designs and most

nefarious actions in our relations with Natives. Is it too much jto expect that respectable politicians will not lend the eredit of their names to accusations which they know to be without foundation and not without malice ?” Dr Beard, the neurologist, is engaged im writing a book about the Guiteau case He will take the ground that the assassin is insane. Rough drafts in the handwriting of Moore of “ Lalla, Rookh,” the “Life of Byron,” the “ Epicurean,” &c., have just been sold in London. John Habberton’s new book was written long before he scored a success with “ Helen’s Babies.” He has merely rechristened an old story—a thrifty device. One of the most interesting facts lately developed is that Byron and Shelley were both descended from the great-grand-father of Sir Philip Sidney—William Sidney.