ENGLISH VIEWS OF TARANAKI MATTERS.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 298, 28 August 1860, Page 3

ENGLISH VIEWS OF TARANAKI MATTERS.

Either the anger of supplanted proprietors I or the jealousy of a declining race has served to kindle the war now reported, and in neither case can ye have any cause for selfreproach. If there was any usurpation in the matter of the land at New; Plymouth, • we were not the usurpers. We, dealt withthe ostensible owners and actual possessors of the soil, and became the purchasers by a r>bona.fide bargain, valid according to native custom and natural law. > • As to the nationality movement, if that is really at the bottom of the disturbance, such paroxysms of feeling can be easily comprehended. " They are but the. necessary incidents of the process by which a superior race displaces an inferior one—incidents, in fact, of colonisation itself, and need- suggest no reproach if we do but conduct ourselves with humanity and good faith; ... The unpleasant feature in these transactions, if our reports give us the truth, is the position which the military officers now occupy as regards the colonists. The tactics of Colonel Gold on the first occasion, and still more the conduct of Colonel Murray in leaving the volunteers to their fate, have provoked comments so angry that the govenor of the colony has entreated the editors ofthe local prints tp avoid the subject. We are not insensible to the arguments which the military authorities might produce. No officer can be expected to "stake the lives of his men and his own reputation upon the decision of heedless and unprofessional combatants. Military science would be of no avail if it could be thus overruled, and the volunteers, in advancing as they did, had probably disobeyed advice, and violated the sound theories of • war. Nevertheless, when lives were at stake, the lives of Englishmen, whose only fault was an excess of hardihood in attempting the rescue of others, ali such considerations should have given way. It is clear, too, from the event that both on the first and second occasion the apparent rashness of the colonists rested on very good reasons, and that if Captain Cracroft, with 50 sailors, could take the pah, Colonel Murray, with twice as many soldiers, could have done the same. In a war where so much must depend upon the co-operation of the settlers with the military this antagonism is greatly to be deplored. We trust the next mail may bring us intelligence of peace, but if the contest, as we are reluctant to anticipate, should be unhappily prolonged regulars and irregulars must be placed on better terms with each other.— Times.

So much is clear:—The principle of land community is totally at variance with the interests and necessities of European settlers. Emigrants will continue to pour into New Zealand, and land must be obtainable. By the nature o£ things it must be thus, and by the nature of justice it ought to be so. This is no question of exterminating one race to make room for another. The native population of New Zealand is sparsely diffused. In the southern island it is almost wanting. There is room enough for all. The British Colonial Government has always endeavored to deal fairly with the Maori. When civilisation and savagery come into contact the latter must inevitably give way. European settlers could only yield to native feelings in regard to land by sinking in the scale of civilisation. Neither policy nor philanthropy can justify the retention of a fertile expanse such as the ■ New Zealand Islands embrace, as mere waste of forest and fern, phormium tenax and brushwood. Reclaimed and cultivated it will be in time, and, for the interests of all parties, the sooner that time comes the better.

. The Maori race, though a remnant, is a very fine race. Its extinction would be a matter of regret—-even ethnologically speaking. If, however, Qwing to impracticable pretensions, illfeeling should grow up between natives and Europeans, and frequent wars arise, the issue cannot be for a moment doubtful.

• True policy, no less than true mercy, dictate that we, as the more civilised race, should probe the ulcer of dispute to the bottom; and if the result be to demonstrate that present troubles have originated in the mistake of dealing with the Maoris as equals, the error can be rectified.

For our own part, we strongly suspect that the native mind is warped by European influences. Ever since the tide of emigration to New Zealand first set in, the immigrants have continued to range themselves in one of two distinct arid mutually divergent classes. The fixed settler and the squatter or sheep farmer are the very antipodes of each other. They differ as to aims, interests, and tastes. Whereas it is the aim of the fixed settler to purchase land and to clear it, to build houses and offices—in short to make for himself a horne —the interests of the squatter or sheep farmer prompt him to look upon the wilderness as a necessity of his condition—the only source of health. Bound to no locality, the tent, or shifting log hut, is his home. A very Bodouin, he roams from place to place. The larger his sphere of wandering to him, the better. The perpetuation of common right is what he especially aims at, and we fear the somewhat late pretensions to common right advanced by the Maori.insurgents may have been suggested by European prompt-mgs.~?-Morning Post.

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