LOCATION OF NATIVES IN WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 669, 26 September 1876, Page 2

LOCATION OF NATIVES IN WAIKATO.

Sfß— l feel I ana ateeriuif between So jlla auilCharybdis, wl>eu I mention the above ■übject, for I have jau on the one hand, And ci'i-tam •(t'lera on tlie Wai^a on tile other. To stejr cloar of both, will re <iuirc lomo lucenuitj. Before proceeding ruty lutthor, I may a* well ».iy that 1 atn uo lorcr of our aboriginal friends or

menus, aivl th.'t my oSj • t m jvnun.' these lium h suDpiv To dri \ tliant tuition <t .your ip id rs to tho fict thai st.eh tiling v*«ivins;TjvDcls, flWand -a^r Are done in a mu^h more popnjoos, and older • country tuarf Kew Zwlmnd, To of the "nuivd difficult/ which som • people are hito enMigh to ac use tinNative Minwier nrd ],« officers of niaghiuiiifit. 1 wcu'd mich ijith. r udt up with the ineonvefieno s -which tjfo mnav'u'.id opponents of MK -li a 10. <it,on predict, thjui lose any chance of solving our bu^beir. Such a echeine has suoccwlpd in nnotlier pait of (his prowuce, whero«nati«3 wlia were at war with 113, vreie, after having .-urrenlered, looked in the midst of the Eiuopean settlers with whom they have erer agreed remarkably well. Then why thould not the experimrnr succeed hero also ? Excuse the digression ; I >mII now gire the paragraph to which I wished to drtw the attention of j.»ur rearlers :—: — " On the 29<h of Aprii, IS6B. a treaty j wis made wuh the Sioux Indian*, nn i solemnly ratihVd br both pirties. Tne ess ntial provisioni'of this trea'y w^r.e th.it tl\e tribes iliouln resign their liomen and hunting grounds in Nebraska und Killing nod remove to a new do iiain, the limits of which were carefully in »rke 1 out, that this domain should fo erer remain a<i their exclusive po?aession, that ihe Ci vernment slmuM no ther aond troopa vt invade it, or explore it, or permit white people to enter it for any purpoap wlntever;that tho In hans should confine ilifm-elvf-s witlnn its limits, *liich wer,Hbout 125 miles square; and that the vfOTTorae t shou d p.ij to them cerlain annnitipi in money, arms, munitions, too\» c othing and provisions. The domain thus mi apart as the p rp tuil and exclusir* home of the Sioux whs known as the Black, Hi. 1 8 Country, und it oconpiei the South-west corner of Dikota territory " Tiii« wus the pr>vision mnde by the Ameri* an Government for about 30*00 Lkliaiis Had our Trans-Atlantic cou ins followed the sumo plan whiih some of our Jocal settlers seem lo d sire, ru : thut ol engaging in war on the slightest pretext, would the out. distrct.* of tlmt countiy hue ndviiiii<ed as rapidly us they b ivr ? In Amenci ih* v thoiO'i^hly bel eve in (icquirinu tonim-y by pmsuisive meanin pifference to iicq Hiring it by ihe rifle, un.ess c 'inp-llrtd to defend them->ove.s. I nei'd ouly point tj the suci'ess tins course h.is attuinel in the Stite of Pennsylvania where a tb. (roughly parilic, nnd mcdiHting policy has always been followed . T-m°, without the presmt outs : dd in terferenca wiMi the mtitei i# all that is required to lerminnte successfully the policy of Sir Dunald McLe-ui. Tl-e intermeddling with native Hffairs, uf those who ha»«» no t'liiinetis to do so, cit» only mnke future negotiations wore difficult, in tsmudi as there are, I regret to s»v, II few p. ople in our midst, who in their desire to mjure thu present i^overumeat adopt .ver^ mea.is of nequ tinting the na'ivtsnf v\h»t is passing b.>t.h here and at Wellington. All fin an on-y tend to make t'le Maori b Here he is of much more importance thin ho rally a. Tilling you will excuse m.y taking up "so mucfi of jour vui uable spaca. — I am, «Stc, Si ,vx.