[THE SEMI-MILITARY SETTLEMENTS IN THP WATTTATO

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 83, 21 August 1863, Page 3

[THE SEMI-MILITARY SETTLEMENTS IN THP WATTTATO

Si ?? , llßh else *lua-e the conditions n||on which land in the Waikalo district egrant^ to VoI ™teer Militiamen, SIS 16 pro J. ln . ce of Auckland. Nearly onjßailar conditions are offered to officers nomanen in the military and naval service W? may bf. desirous of becoming settlers,' y o id are willing to perform military service; SKi #-° Set f tlerS senerallv ikder Si?" 3 ° f as 1 *° f ROO S health. nera -5^ cS l f ° rthe servi cc, who ttattlbe provided at the expense of the : oitf»vernment with a free passage to AunkiUMd. The latter O'i their arrival will be' beeWrolled in. the Militia for service in the thwTince,' and formed into companies :ani«en they will enjoy the same advantages Is toßarc offered to Volunteer Miliii ame n llo^BWe rejoice at this step being taken hv i S^M Government, and \we trust that the °?W) eni l Assembly will never be convened oufMil these military settlements have been af?Bcessfully established throughout the nwißßui and breadth ofi the Waikato and w t«t,Cape districts. An Act of the General cteiißeinbly will doubtless be necessary to 1 0 - n W'^ le course which has been taken by ntlflß t? ov Mnmen,t ; .but is there a man in deniM Assembly who after hearing of rtreremponduct of tlie ;Maori King, and f^Hu S the mani festo of the King-Maker, au-W "oiefuse to pass such an act? Not M>^R^ c 8!lou1^ imagine, unless it be Dr tb|;R-? rs j o n and colleagues ; and we trust such ■'® re /the Assembly meeis. such action bel^BSi S en b^ the People of Wellington bU?l^H^ 1 ua % deprive that: party of Wei * ht in ' our colonial ParliaUe«i«fe° ccu Pation of the Waitotava block z^BdWa° nthc same terms as those M ythc General Governmct would

go far to secure the Wanganui settlement from invasion by the ; Ngatavuanuis and their allies, and we tnisfc tliat^ the Provincial authoritieswlll turn their attention at once to this sub ect ifthey do not think that the whole of the West Coast should be quietly abandoned to the King natives. The LI 900 paid by the Supeiintendent for the block,, and which under present circumstances appears to be so much money thrown away, could not be expended for a" better purpose.