The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1882. RIGHT REVEREND NOODLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1206, 17 October 1882, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1882. RIGHT REVEREND NOODLES.

A telegram in our last issue stated that—

"Two important meetings were held in the conference room of the House of Commons to consider a Bcheme for arresting the decay of the Maoris. The need for such ascheme is taid to exist. In fact contrary to the policy of the chiefs, the native lands ate ratfd'.y alienated and the proceeds squandered, The Bchcinoproposodis, bymeanßofan association originated in England to which all waste lands may be transferred for tho purpose of opening up, to invest, by way of sinking fcmrytho prime value of the land as it is sold at enhanced values to settlers. Permanent alieniated annuities are to be granted by the New Zealand Government in favor of tho individual landowners, or their heirs, and shareholders in the association to share with tho natives auy further profit on improved values in the land. The quantity of land to be dealt with is 10,033,000 acres, and it is estimated, that in oighteen years the native landowners will be m the enjoyment of the interest of £4,000,CC3. That plausible but worthless fellow Sidney Taiwhanoa seems tobavemado his mark in London. He constitutes a sort of self appointed deputation which is now dignified with the ridiculous title of "the Maori Embassy." It is nothing new that Right Reverend prelates and gushing noblemen should lift their philanthropic eyes from the half starved multitude which throng their own towns, and direct their gaze to the sleek and well fed Maoris of the Southern Hemisphere, Were we in New Zealand to form an association to arrange the Irish difficulty or reform the English poor laws we should be laughed at by our friends at home, but yet such a proposal would be every bit as reasonable as that which Sidney Taiwhanoa appears to have started. In utter ignorance of New Zealand questions and of. the position of the native race and their habits, Right Reverend gentlemen on the representation of a Maori scamp are prepared to take over the management of the Maoris and appear before the world astheirprotectorsandpatrons. They fail to see that the New Zealand Bottlers would never sanction or permit an impertinent interference of such a character. ..They do not realise the; fact that though they take as Gospel all that Sidney Taiwhanoa tells them, the New Zealand Maoris know him too well to place a single acre of their lands at his disposal. If the proposed association were manned by the whole bench of English Bishops, the Maoris would never consign their lands to their keeping. A Native will sell his birthright for a mess of pottage, and no: power on earth will keep him ..from doing so, but he will not part with it for such a mesTpY'-pottage aa this extraor-'. dinary association would Seem to offer.' Natives are improvident, and it would be well if they could bernade'providenA No native will part with hw interest in

land without a quid proiquo, and even if- lie Hccppted;-the alternative :of ani; annuity which the association contemplates, he would pledge, thafc for What it would fetch whenever the temptation to raise the wind came strongly upon him.' If the Right Reverend promoters of. this silly bubble could devise some means of making the Maoris iudustvious and'prudent vhey might do some goodjbut all they seem to aim at is to remove "all incentive toindustty and prudence by cutting bread and butter for the natives Of New Zealand iii Surely, these Eight Reverend gentlemen have enough social problems to solve in the hearts of their own greatcitics without coming to New Zealand, It is, however easier for them to make a show with a project for improviug the position and prospects of the ■wealthiest native race in the world than to deal with the poverty and misery at their; own palace doors. Their ignorance of the Maori is no doubt an exalted bliss to them, and Sidney TAwnANGAis, we feel sure, of the opinion that it would be folly for them to be wise,