NATIVE POLICY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 656, 3 August 1876, Page 3

NATIVE POLICY.

Sib,— lt it well known that at tlie gre«»t miftingatHilunirgi the King positively forbid bis auljtels to receive any more pretend from the G-oTerntmiit, end re utillv pnssed a Ihw to jiut a tiop to their riciiving rations any longer, while Mnnuhiri, end all the* leading chi fa, dtnounre the nutem lin^e they fully belu-ve tha*. their is aou.e deep deceit at the bottom of it, therefore y< ur correep( ndi nt 'ingratitude,' and all tbore that •exd.iiro that we want to brirg wnr upon thf colony *hen we prot«at against the continuance of the flour and sugar polity, only »bew how utterly ign< rant they are of the nativei in the interior. Tt o<e •ch'cfs who are now ruling t) c Hawhaus t re oade*p*nd *hrew<l nt any lawyers in the colony, and harm); formed therr«elves into a land league to prevent the disosnl of •ny further portion of the islind to ur- 1 liey ore fully aware that to go to wur *ith us would upiet all tlieir achemes and tucnfWe thei whole, therefore they have fully determined never to fight ag»in uilesstbey are compelled to do to in defence of their territory. Trifling with •ueh men it Btwi, Manuhiri, and Te Kgskau ii worse thnn useless- it is dangerous, and all flint know them muit confeit iWI the only way to treat with tkfVMMnafallyt and, at the tome time, gmfrvad their rerpect, is to them "BWTwaare prepared and willing to gife thim ample juttice and nothing more, and, at tlie aan.e time, let them plainly i.nder«tand that we expect them to treat vi fairly, nod gite v nothmc leu than equM juatice in returo. The natives •lwoya apeak with respect of a ' tangata tla' (a just man), but » tangata nga«are ' (a a^ft mSn), or on* who yields to their whims, (hey inrariably deipise. The natives fhould be encouraged in industry as far as p< saible, and the best way to do so it to teach them that they must work for all they require, and truat to themseWri rather than beg from the Gorernnwnt. If 'Inuratitudc,' and all those who think with him, that land should be g^en back to the nntires, would read the account of our land transactions with, tlw natiTea of Taranaki, in Sir Julius Vogel's Official Eandbook of New Zealand, and carefully study the reiul.s which followed, I thirk they would acknowledge their miVeke, and agree with you in condemning the idea of locating Hauhaus in the midst of our settltrs. They would the c learn that after »c had purchased tho \ district of Taranaki from tl c natives tfTcral times over, aoma a!avea were brought in to live amongst our settlements through the exertions of the Eer John Whittly, who has since been murdered by thoM rery men, and how they soon became 10 insolent that, they laid eMm to the whole of the district, and although their claima were diamisaed by Mr Spain, who wsa sent out to investigate them o\ the B.iisb Oov« rnment, yet they induced Goven.or Fitzioy to expel the aett'ers and give them postessbn of the whole district, whereby ' thousands of acres of fine open land w.ra left a barren and totally unproductire waste. Ihe land w s given bnck in 1844, and during the mcceeding 10 years a few small blocks were repurchased at great expenso in tl c faco of much opposition. Then a land league was foined, the outcome of which was the greot war of 1860.' Such, this official report points out, was the reward of our mistaken kiii6nc*s then, and would it be wudem to repeat the experiment ? 1 believe w« make a gross imstaka in recogniemg the King ot all, but that t" restore one acie of land would be simple modneffl, and eedsinly endanger the peace of the .colony, by encouraging them to ma,k» ftnaol«nt<dejtuanda for lajid on all sideij for

every Inba would say tlut they lnd ns much rigbt to veceivo theiri back as any olhfrs. The I*'ml question i* a very flnnsjconn thing to trifle with. — I am, &c, JusimA. Alexundra, July 31, 187 G.