THE HON. MR BALLANCE'S VISIT TO WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1953, 13 January 1885, Page 2

THE HON. MR BALLANCE'S VISIT TO WAIKATO.

Ir is understood that in the com so of a fe y days, tlio hon. the Native Ministui will pay a vi>it t<> tins district. Whatiw hatihoe w ill doubtless be the scene of any business winch ho may conic to transact with the native people, but what the nature of that busino-» will be, or what foitn his policy towaids Tawhino and the little coterie of spoiled aboriginals over the border will assume it is not yot possible to anticipate. Of course there will be tlie n-.ua] Habitations and congratulations on either side, and the inevitable flattering overtures, and the dreary recounting of the wrongs and abusos of tho pjst, from the treaty of Wiutangi forward, fchu vague requirements of the present, the intertribal suspicious and jealoHiwies and the gloomy foiebodtng.s of the future, near and remote, all related in order as an indispei.siblc pro'o^ue of all native meetings or Maori political f dices.. WbiJfi addressing the Wanganui natives, Mr liallauco apoke of the absolute necessity of having tlw title to all native land individualised, pointing out tho advantages of such a course no far as tho mteiests of both races were concerned. Hut in tho Wanganui district wo proaumo the natives arc all on a pretty equal footing in rusnerfc to tho land, while here Mr liallance'n avidiencu will consist in a great measure of people who if tho title to tho land within the boundaries of thfl " KinjJ " country were individualised will be loft utterly destitute and thrown either on the chanty of their own people or upon tho (Joiormnent. It was this fact that induced Mr Brycu to wake Tawhiao and tho Waikatos tho liUoi.il offer which they foolishly i ejected, and ut.ltisu MrlJaJJancp is open t.> make a like offor, or etvtJ them an equivalent of home Kind, it is Tittle good mi' Ijiifi to propose tho course which he reconimuncutd, ,{nd winch hcetned so feasible at Wanganui. Thetc /?«» '->c no doubt that weie Tawlnao and his people made tho Hnme offer which they blindly rejected about a yeai ago, they would gladly em^tce it now. The tiip to England must have hacj a very saluUry effect upon tho minds of those who enjoyed it, and with whom (if we except thaji impervious und ovoi rated old Turk VVaha«ui) lies the iutcfiifting of rejection of such an <}ih>v. The fact i* pvjdejjt that, Jot things take what, course thqy may, egine nrf/vjsion must be made for Tawhiao ana j)i» IiVKM 0^ followers who are at prewnt living oil tho charity of tho other tribes.

We would djrcct special attention to the new .i<]vert|vmcj)t qf Mcnn Lewis and Simpson, C.imbridce, having reforpnee to their stock of farmers' requ'uites for the coming ljanpst,