OFFICIAL TEXT OF SIR GEORGE GREY'S PROPOSALS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 919, 14 May 1878, Page 2

OFFICIAL TEXT OF SIR GEORGE GREY'S PROPOSALS.

The following is the official text of Sir George Grey's -written terms to Tawhiao : — " From the answers given by me before, about the giving back of Waikato, you must know perfectly well that it is impossible for me to do so ; but I will tell you what I can do for you. These are the proposals of the Government. You are standing m your position with authority, and the Government will assist you with the chiefs of your own districts, so that matters may be conducted m order that peace and good will between the two races of the Island may exist. The Government will always watch. They will not look to the one side or the other. It remains with you to say the word to lease, and leases will be allowed; to sell, and sales will be allowed within the boundaries of your district. 'Jhe Government, will give you an allowance, and the chiefs who are to be your assistants m conducting the affairs Avtthin your district. 'Ihe Government will give you, Tawhiao, £500 a year. The money for distribution within the district Avill be paid m a lump sum to you, Tawhiao. It is for you to distribute it as you like to the chiefs within your district. The Government will give you 500 acres of land at Ngaruawahia, so as to bo close to the grave of your father, Potatau. The Government will erect a house for you at Kawhia, so that you can hold the meetings of your council m it. The portions of land not disposed of by the Government to Europeans on the western sides of the Waikato and "Waipa will be returned to Tawhiao. In addition to that, as I am very anxious that you should have means to meet your wants, the Govermnent propose that town acres be selected m each one of the townships established on the Waikato and Waipa rivers, to be given to you m trust for the use of all the people ; the money to be appropriated m such manner as you will choose. My desire is that you may speedily have means, as these lands will be of value. With regard to the road.% my desire is that all the roads should be managed between Tawhiao and the Government, and that no one eltri shall interfere ; that no one shall attempt to make a road until that matter has been settled by Tawhiao and the Government. With regard to the surveys, it is for you to direct surveys to be inadts, and where they would be made. I have thought these things out, and ,ifc is my earnest wish to SGe you comfortably settled oh the lands ifc is proposed ypu should have. If you accept my proposals I snail do my best to settle you on the parts of the districts to be given to you, and which have not been parted with to Europeans So far as supplying you with implements and materials you may require for settling on the lands, the Government will take charge of that fitter so as to strive to make j'ou really prosperous spd happy fr the villages you ihay establish. That is all it is m my power to do for you. With regard to the town allotments, I will go over the maps with Tawhiao, rud tye toge.tU.er will chose wU'ioh the (ots s&all bs." ' ,

A. FRENCH VIEW OY BIUT,U3r'S MILITARY BISSOUHCiiiS.

The following, on the question of England's military power, is from a com-.iunication by the Paris correspondent o£ the < Daily Telegraph/ written on February 27 :— < This morning 1 the most influential of tbe Republic organs, the ' Ropubiique Francaiso, 1 devotes a long article to discussing the forces which could bs commanded by England m the event of a war with Russia. The writer points out that such a struggle might be prolonged indefinitely. What led. to the rapid conclusion of the great wars which we have seen m recent days was, m his opinion, the proximity of the belligerent nations. ' It would be altogether different m a war between England and Russia, and nothing' could prevent the former, which has meu, money, and the first fleet m .the world at her disposal, from striking at many different and widely-separated points at the same time.' After remarking that no comparison can be made between the condition of England; at the time of the wars of the Revolution and to-day, the writer quotes the fig ures representing the British Islands :— « The population of England is now nearly .equal to that of France, to that of Austria, and to half that of Russia m Europe, Ireland, reconciled, speaks no longer of separation ; Canada and Australia could furnish m case of need a very powerful contingent of aid to England, and India may be considered as an unlimited recruiting field, although we can hardly say with confidence what would be the attitude of its population m event of a war with Russia. But only taking into account the 33,500,000 inhabitants within the " British Islands, we may judge of what kind of resistance they would make by the trouble which 5,500,000 of South Americans gave during a period of three years to the masses of the North. As for the public wealth of England, that is a matter more difficult to estimate than the population ; bub it is certain that m respect of riches the country has made still more wonderful strides since the period of the Revolution than m the number of its inhabitants. The national debt of England is estiat 740 millions sterling, and its

public wealth afc 7GBO millions sterling. Thus we see by how much she could increase her present debt before attaining the proportion which existed between the national debt and public wealth 60 yeArs ago. She 'is therefore at the present moment iii a position to enter on the expenses of a struggle as long as the campaigns from 1792 to 1815, with the prospect of coming out of it m the condition m which she was placed at the fall of Napoleon. In conclusion, th# writer submits to reflections as the result of his considerations of the actual state of England, having regard to the possibility of a long war.. One of them is, that the commercial world m all countries — and particularly m England — is much more susci-ptible as to its interests than it was at the time of the wars of Napoleon ; and the other is that perhaps England would find that she could not obtain men for her money, and that, even if she did, men are not armies."