THE OTHER SIDE

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 662, 17 August 1876, Page 3

THE OTHER SIDE

giR t With your permit sion I should like to moke a few renams in rep'y to the letter with thcabove heading, wliieh appenrtd in joi.r i^ue of the 29th uli Ytur rorrea».onde t • Jngatituda,' tor ctlv dewii'iea tha feelings of those to whom he re'en, ns wishing to abolish th<K»tiv*> Depai ttn«it as ai preient constituteJ, and tlionfh »rt.uiiif; that the polity of Sir Dor.nld Mc'Jeim has been iv tlie purl puri-ued in ihe interests or Waik«t , lie c:»n full} •voids all seui'olituc ■ of argulu nt in f .tour of coni.it vi ig the snoie j olicj row nnd yt I think ihe r«-solut Oil* p»s«ed at tho me ling u d< r di cu-s-on, without excrptioi , lef rred to the pnseit ! time. Not that lon entirely a^ree wit i * litprntiuirVs' arßrn.ent*, e*en with repard to the past. Be *e< mi. to have fu'len inlolae v*rj con mon u'ea, if lie wi'l nil' w mi- 1 will ca'l ite-r-.', of thuiking tbtie was no altfriiavive between t'aepeu«e at any price policy of Sir Do.mld JVtcLeun «nd the war policy of Mr Sisfiord. lie j sskt 'if » piivnte individual wishei 10 Irmt »iih u n»tti»e, vrill he po and a»k \im what he will taUe ri L ht off;' no, and {, « wcu d be ra»h c ough to «bk the Defnce Mn^ter to negotiate with the BlncT'i in thi« m^nnf.'. I iu^cy the ' priT«ie <n( itidual' in the hypot'.iesis would not b unily rush u medial .-en, but w uld al o« theCst advance to com* fn at the bit'iTe, and theie »re many w'»o fed ihat lolftthe r.a ive» alrne, would be now, 'and «rould prolably have b en in the p.ft, the »ii.esi policy, and Oi.e winch «< aid hu«e liern I k« ly to b.-.nff übnut the »nn c bmefic a 1 re«ultb mentioned by your a ntspoi.c'ci t without the a<d'flipanung tli(.«r»T«rit»gef « f the present policy. 'Ihe nutm* h <re lorg li-arned to aj»p>-eciate the n'Cfcesri.'s of turopcon citili»ution aid would n<t hllow tliemselro to be im la led from ra, even if it did entail what i« tailed 'odung in.' lam (?lad to ste that jou t?k»- exceftion to that part of 4 IngiatuudeV letter which approyes of giving Maoris land within the European bouiidarie*. Probably your couesponcci.t ha« not htad in clunproxiaity t« the liaurta or he would more readily under •rub the ot jictuna raised »eu>n«t them , 'tA i&iirhbours ; hut you, air, by your re- ' marks, have removed the llec<•^sn,y < f my tirgmc this tiew of the cuse. In couclu8K n I w'H add that u is quite a miscontendon \o furry tbatth(»e who attended one rt lep»t of the n>eeting», to wh-ch excrpfion i« tHken, » re in favour of any iciion cabula ed to cause a war, which, •t<ou<d it unfortuDrtely ocou.. cor Id hardly fail to be moat di.ahtroun to the ruitiT<s ; l'ut, at the rouie tima, they are ittprrpn-ed to endorse a policr which ) a> fii«D me n.am power over p.nclical'y tn iir.Ufd lund» witjout beug iom t >eled to t'C- ount lor them ; which has raised up a 1 ottof official* in a (lepnrtn cut of which tiefiih.i. areiillored to know n< tl in>;; «nd which bso pnuipered, and truckled to the lffltt wi»-h ol tlie rebd ntives in a manner that has taired their oppoiiion to ar> inporianie it al<<uld never have at tii cd. — I I'm, 4c. 11 B. Augu.t 14th 1876.