THE RISING MAORI RACE.

Southland Times, Issue 1155, 27 October 1869, Page 3

THE RISING MAORI RACE.

The following extract from a lecture delivered by the Eev. J. Buller is published in the Parliamentary Papers just to hand : —

A section of the Maori youth have developed into reckless desperadoes, under the training they have received from early boyhood in combat with our own troops ; they will now shoot Pakehas with the same zest with which they formerly , hunted pigs. They will never yield. Their blood is up. Moulded by savage warfare. they have become, according to St. Peter, " as natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed." Sharp, precocious children are springing up, who with their mother's milk imbibe the spirit of hatred and contempt for the alien race, and may be expected, under the present state of things, to acquire a settled enmity towards the whites. These evils are gertniiiative. They will grow with their growth. If we look beneath the surface, we see the seed of future troubles. To our young men and most of all to our Christian young men, I would say, " Think on these things." No temporizing, no vindictiveness, no rashness. Let the errors of the past be the beacons for the future. " Quit you like men: be strong." Prepare yourselves for emergencies, and you will overcome them. Be not lulled into a false security by specious appearances. In town and country every young man should be self-reliant. I am not recommending a war spirit, but that decision which is necessary to peace. If the Maoris believed that every Pakeha was well armed, had strong nerves, and was a dead shot, it would fill them with unbounded respect for him.