The Patea Mail on the Native Difficulty.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3216, 10 June 1879, Page 2

The Patea Mail on the Native Difficulty.

Our well-posted contemporary, the, Patea Mail, says .—The Maaries are going to settle the native Their evil genius is hurrying them' on to iheir destiny. Fearing nothing, because know jus; little, they are rushing forward to meet the extinction that would hare overtaken them had they fled from it. When, the grizzly bear, after the sawyer had escaped, insisted on trying conclusions with the circular saw revolving at full' speed, and hugged it accordingly, he' did just' what the noble -savage - insists on doing now. We do not .underrate the Maori's power for mischief; they will doubtless find opportunities.for inflicting dreadful calamities on the. settlers by, murdering, burning, and plundering.'' But disasters of this kind only stir*up the buperior race to use its power— They, cannot be regarded as weakening European ranks. These, little gaps, like scratches on, a healthy body, soon fill up, and are for. gotten. The loss that means annihilation to a waning race that-is numbered by .thousands, is nothing to the multiplying race that is numbered by millions. ,In_ the crisis that seems to be now at v hand," the settler, who has to bear the brunt in labor, loss, and danger, must try to lose his individuality in that of the mighty people to which he belongs. This t. is perhaps unpleasantly like - the, .comfort that was administered to the man of Vz. Yet, surely there is comfort in knowing" that one's own side must win. Those who may have to fight will not dnspise the, enemy any, more than they would despise a tiger. But though they might run the risk of beings mauled or) eaten, they would know that the result of war between their race and all the tigers on earth would be a foregone conclusion."