The Situation.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3181, 30 April 1879, Page 2

The Situation.

The Herald thus speaks of the action of Tawhiao and the position taken up by Sir George Grey and the Government:— Ministers have not ai jet received any formal invitation to be present at the Waikato meeting, and therefore, so far as is yet known, they will hot attend. Tawhiao intends to gather round him all the most illustrious chiefs of his race, and if, after careful sounding, he can see that it would be advantageous, he will no doubt ask the. Premier and Native Minister to attend. But the truth is that Tawhiao finds himself in somewhat of a difficulty, and does not see his way out of it. Previous negotiations have brought him to a point beyond which he does not wish to go. What he was to receive was plainly enough laid down, and he was glad enough to get it. He was rejoiced to hear that we were not inclined to make any attack upon him, that we were not about to send parties to attempt the capture of murderers, and that we were willing to remain at peace. But he is very shy of any further advances. He knows that these necessarily mean a reduction of his power and influence, and he naturally hesitates. Thus, much more than the influence of any emissaries of the Opposition, we believe to be the moving power of his present attitude. There it no doubt, however, that a number of gentlemen of high political status have been working hard to prevent any successful result from the negotiations of the present Ministry with the Ktngites. They have been playing a somewhat dan* gerous game, as, if completely successful, they can only claim to have done considerable injury to the colony.