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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 250, 2 May 1866, Page 3

The Morning Star has reason to'believe; that some extraordinary revelations concerning the affairs of New Zealand will be made early in the ensuing session of Parliament. It seems to have been madness on the part s of out New Zealand; authorities that, instead of endavoring, by legislation to make friends of the natives, they on the contrary marched into the centre of their country, the Waikato; thus making deadly foes of the finest tribes who might have been made our friends, and assisted in developing the resources of, and in defending, the liable islands of the South Pacific. Have ing gone into the Waikato and fought there according to his orders, G-eneral Cameron did not wish to go to Wanganui and have more bloodshed of white and brown warriors, to please the' ideal ministers ; but, being under orders, he was obliged again to obey them, and when the Wareroa pah was full of men he was expected to attack it. He said, " Let us invest it for a time :""" the natives will tire, as is their wont, and evacuate it." It was for this^ opinion that the minister of Sir Greorge Grey quarrelled with him. Eventually it was occupied by a very few Maories, The governor made a clever demonstration against it, backed by the 14th and other regiments, and it fell. This is, we believe, the true history of the matter. In a large party, one evening, the conversation turned upon young men's allow ance at college. Tom Sheridan lamented the ill-iudging parsimony of many parents in that respect. "I am sure, Tom," said his father, "you need not . complain ; I: always allowed you eight hundred a year" — "Yes, father, I must confess you allowed it, but then it was never paid." ■,