RACES OF NEW ZEALAND.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 283, 6 July 1860, Page 4

RACES OF NEW ZEALAND.

In all conquests, whether by .the mind or the sword, which ; have terminated ; in good- to tho weaker party, the. conquerors have invariably amalgamated with the conquered; and this is most necessary among the New Zcalaoders, as ■their rapid decrease is much aggravated by breeding in and in. It is, therefore, satisfactory' to find that Caucasian: blood already flows in the veins of two thousand of thenative populationi '■'■■■ '■'■'• '■■■' ■l> : '■■ ■-•' '■■ -;-' : • ■ The late Rriv. Mr. Lawry, the venerable superintendent of .the. Wesleyan missions in the South Seas, state that—the New Zeaknders are m.elting. : aw,ay;; but,] he observes,/ they are , not last, they are merging. into another aud a better clas?. .In this process their lacketh not sin,, but Providence . will over-rule this,.and bring forth a fine new race of civilised mixed people, which shall be better for the world, better for the Church, and better for the new race. A large proportion of these half-castes are New Zealanders in language and manners, and they are singularly free from scrofula, the disease taint in the Maori blood. Physically they are a uoble and beautiful race, and they only require education to develop the force and power of their minds. In the third generation the nut-brown skin, theblak eye, and the raven hair generally disappear. The amalgamation is solely due to European men and Maori ' women, only five European women having had childien by Maori men. Such, however, is the custom in all countries where to races come together'in'different "degi ess of civilization; tho Franks in Gaul, and the^Noimans in England wedded-* nhe daughters <Jf ihe'cotfquered/b'ut

few of the daughtei'B of the invader conde-, scehded to merge iv the class, of the vanquished. As the Anglo-Saxon settlers in Now Zealand must soon outnumber the aborigines, the features of the Maori race will disappear among the half-castes, although traces of their blood will occasionally be seen in famines after many generations., Haughty Spaniards in South America boast of their decent from the Incas-; two of Montez'uma's children founded noble Spanish houses; Garcilaso, the historian's epitaph at Cordova records that his mother was sister to the late native Emperor of Peru ; and respectable Virginian families are proud in tracing a connection with the ancient rulers of the country. The same feeling, in a very few generations, will develop itself in New Zealand, and settlers will yet boast of having in their veins the,blood of Potatau,' Rauparaha, Heke, Walker, Nene, Rangihaetaa, Mawiti', and other Maori warriors.— Story of New Zealand.