MR. COX ON SEPARATION. (Continued from our last issue.)

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 665, 16 September 1876, Page 2

MR. COX ON SEPARATION. ( Continue d from our last issue.)

The movor of the resolutions next reffered to Native affurs, and aeked that the North be allowed to "cot front" it aioufl. 1 am not quite to satutied that such would be a who course to adopt, for he ha* already said that at auy moment war may break out. VV hen 1 heard htn so apeak, takiug npon himself the c ffice of prophet, 1 was rcmiuded of what 1 bai once bieu told at to hi* opinion of the state of the country in runpect to Native ntf.urs in the year 186*3. What he wa» icpt.rled then to have laid wu, that. " the laat ahot ever firod in anger in New Zealand bad been tared"— aud tLuc was on tho «.ve of the brctking cat of the greatest war that the J>oith hua witnessed Sir George Grey. — L beg to explain that 1 was not in New Z^alaud at the time ; 1 was in South A£> ioa. Mr Cox. — I am alluding to the year 1563. Sir G. Grey. — Will the honorable geutloman nun) the poraon, because it is utterly contraij' to my recollect ou ? M r Cox.— l tnusi dec'iio t> name the goutleman who told me ; hut of courne, if I have been misinformed, 1 accept the honorable geutlijuan'a denial. SirG Grey.— l think it u not right to mo to detail a conversation which took place thut-sen years ago with sutnu imaginary person, which couversat on 1 have no recollection whatever of, and wlrivjli I beliave never could have takeu place, us it i& quite contrary to my tueliufgi. I think tho honorable thtn^ would b% to tell the name of tha person, and let me try to rtoollect tho oircuinatanr, Air Cor. — If thnre is no foundation in the statement, of ooariie I accept tho honouable %eat cman'n contra liotioo. Sir G Grey.— l submit, Sir, that it is not in accordance with any rule of private life tint a person uhitild «ud relate in detail a conversation wbich n«t said a gentUmin sittiug m his preteuce held with auothcr pernou thtrU-i u yearn a^'o, without tilling who that person if. 1 La\c ut;^er before, in llio tip«.n-.Lcj ut i

along life, kaotvaK tsiroumttauoe of th« kind ; * Q( Vj|&flEj|B *•» justice to myself, the ujfifjp^^be peroou should bo Mr Cjx Ijave only to remark, Sir, in addition wL wh it I hive already bail, thai if Sir O#orge Grey ij pieparod to contradict the aUtetneot made by me on the authority of another, I tha'l not repeat it. as to giving up tbe name of my wf jmunt, iv hi* absence and without hu peiuuision, I submit I should not te required, <iul I absolutely refute to do 40. My obj-et iv referriug to the matter at all was to call at entioa to the fact that, in speaking of tho state of the Native nund iv 1563, the Governor, Sir George Grey, was mutaken, and that it was by do means unlikely that nowA-' when tho honorable member for tbtiTh*mes speaks oracularly, he is happily a* far off the truth. Of this I»m quit* sure, thit the residents of Waikato ure iq do apprtkdnmou of trouble arising from the Maori*. We live oa the border* of a disuff cted diatrict, but wa do not realize the danger ; and 1 would point out> this fact, which by members of UiU House ou^ht to^be appreciated, thu for the pant two mouths Major Te Wheoro has been hviDg, and lit- tally and figuratively sleeping uiid>-r the smne blanket, with the Kiug. Thic man i» the iepreaentativo of the Government, the tnaa who accompanied the Nativa Minuter to the King coanty, and w»a present during thoso interview* we read of. All this hardly juitifie* tbe aaa«rtion tbat the King is itugry or cullen, aud determined to havo no more to do with the Govexoment of the country. la listeniug to the remarks of tlmt houor»b c member upon the ' ■yktein and «dminiitration of Nativa »ffairs, 1 could not help a*king my«elf who was leiponaible for the eyntem under which tie Nativa havo beea dealt with sinoe the Constitution Act hai beer iv operati cv j iml in r« fening to Sir George Gnj'i de pitch of 1851 I thiuk, in re c «uce t> a p opt sed Couutitution for the colony, £ ti rid that provision wni to he nrndo for Natne tchoid» and llv.auleut Miguira:tgA| aufl aUo for what we have iateJy heard* Hpoken of as a con up* »-yo em, being * nothing more or lets th n wholtsals bribery. Thu« spoke me honorable meuibir for the Thames, ittd if he apeaka again he will no doubt say" Some men are to be trusted aud nonie not ; it u a> corrupt administration that I see aud object to ; tbe»e things need not be." Kuc the " presents to Native cbief»" and 41 acknovr lodgements of thd services rendered by them," ideas of Governor Sir George Grey, are still part aiid paice I if our Native Department. In looking attain at these resolutions, I cannot help regarding them as dry boneit, very dry touos ; they are auggentive of the \isi<m of old, written for our instruction. W have the dry bones, the prophesaying, tic noise, the rattling, th- shaking toKether , the laj ing on of th'; sinews and tltuh, the covering up of the skin ; but tbe breath of life lias not been bit.»th d into them, and in truth there is do sign • of life in thorn, aud there it is, • lifeless master it may be, a something calculated to fii^hc-n children, but, if it can be sud ever to have lived, doomed again to die. WL6Q this question was before debated, and antecedent to that, when war was raging in the North, ard money had to be found by the colony for Native defence, hard things were said of tbe North. It was said thea that the North desired war — th*t if was piotitible — aud bow could tbe North give an unprejudiced ( p'liioa npon the question : but 1 aai old euough to remember by whom such things wore said. Such charge*, *uc)i reproaches, wore made by the extreme section of Ui« Provincial party, and they are in the main the men who support tun form of no-called government, and d-«ire now, in the interest <f the Nor h < f .course, to lid tlienißelvta tf all the >o it aud responsibility of Native <iff no. ,[ Will le coatiiHfd in our next.']