of-management on our part will suffice to place the ecclesiastical affairs of Scotland under the decorous rule of Episcopacy. In the meantime, it will be something gained if we can drain off the most promising of the young clergy and probationers into the bosom of our own Church. They may be of great use to us at the present in stemming the tide of Puseyism ; for I believe they may be counted on to a man as deadly enemies of everything savoring of Popery.” “ And of Episcopacy.” ' “ I know they entertain deep pre judices against our glorious and vener able system of Church government; but so many tolerably educated men can’t be all idiots. Ignorant clod poles,. . and mechanics, and narrow souled- shopkeepers may unfeignedly hate the yoke which- their fathers,stub bornly resisted, but I can’t be persuadecT that the clergy are obdurate and blind to their own interests/ Indeed, let me tell you, Reginald, I know they are not... Some of them, at.any rate —and those not the least distinguished—have avowed their favdr for a mild Episco pacy; and the only objection they make to it is the difficulty of reconciling the people to a system which they have been taught to hate and traduce.” “ I have no doubt, Doctor, you may

- prevail with a few of the clergy and clerical stndents to renounce their * Presbyterianism for the sake of snug livings in the Church of England; but - lam sure you will never prevail with ; ' those of the best class—such as Mr. - Duncanson, the young man you saw when coming in.” - * [To be continued—commenced on July 26 )

The West Coast Commission.

The history of New Zealand is but a short one-—little more than half a life time of a human being,—yet the his torian of New Zealand, when he essays his task, will find more material for his work in the short history of this colony than-that: of any other southern colony can supply. The gallant pioneers of our civilisation undertook no child’s

‘ / play When they attempted the co "n-T lonisation of these islands. In addition to - the difficulties that all . pioneers have to encounter when they attempt to break up the virgin soil of a newly discovered country, our pioneers had to contend with the natives of the land. Had these : natives been savages of the ordinary fun, the pioneers would have been en countering a difficulty and an obstruc tion common to all leaders of the way J in history ; but the Maoris were not 1 savages of the ordinary run, but savages that were at once highly intelligent, courageous, and warlike, and possess ing these qualities, in such a degree as no other aboriginals have exhibited.

Their high intelligence is proved by the

fact that at this late hour, when the 'white population outnumbers them in the ratio of ten to one, the Maoris are able to hold their rights against the Go vernment, and point out where Christ ian statesmen have departed from the teachings of the Great Master, whom for centuries England’s boast has been that she served, while the Maoris’ knowledge of Him is but of yesterday. Of their warlike character and their courage, those who went against the Maoris in the war had sufficient evi dence, while in the matter of fortifica • cation the most military nation of the present age, whose armies boast of a hundred conquests, and whose ships ride rulers of the sea, was not above learning a lesson that she now teaches to her youth in the military schools, The relations between the Maori and J European have ever been unhappy. Though conquered, perhaps, as civi lised men regard conquest, the natives have never been subdued, and their spirit has never been broken. To-day they clamor for their rights, as they read them, as loudly as they did before the war, and he would be a divinely-in spired prophet indeed who could tell whether the upshot of the difficulty between the natives on the West Coast :■ and the New Zealand Government will be war or peace. Successive Govern ments followed successive policies in dealing with the natives, and the Moari question of to-day, thanks to the weak ness of some administrations and the incapacity of others, is a ravelled skein that can be straightened out, if at all, only with great care and patience, and fdrbearahce, and withal no small diffi-. culty. But the task of solving the question must be faced, and the Go vernment now in office are undertaking this task to the best of their ability. They sent as Commissioners to enquire into the West Coast difficulty perhaps the tw© best qualified men for the duty —Sir William Fox and Sir F. Dillon Bell. All sorts of fun, all sorts of sneers, have been poked and thrown at the Commissioners, and the Govern ment that sent them, by that Govern ment’s unfriends, but the task has been essayed, and the Commissioners have reported. We heard them at their appointment denounced as unfit for the - position—we heard them charged with v being both judges and accused when they set about the work of reporting upon the West Coast Difficulty, but whatever has been said has not pre . vented them from laying ; before the country a report on the native question which is in itself a history of the colony from 1839 to the present date, so far $t least as our relations with the natives Care concerned. It is not difficult to follow the facile pen of Sir William C Fox in the clear, almost radiant little - : sketches , of -the several; wars, and the policies pursued by the successive Go

vernments that in turn dealt with the Maori question. The report now before us is the second given by the Commissioners, but in it they com mence at the beginning and trace the Maori difficulty from its first rise. The ground traversed by the report is wide, and in the short limits of a newspaper article it is impossible even to summarise all it says, for with no waste of words, and direct dealing with the subject, the document, exclusive of many folios of evidence taken, occupies thirty-four pages of solid foolscap print. But, leaving the early history of the Maori question, we come to the result arrived at by the Commissioners, and we sum it up in a short extract from the report itself: —

Early in 1865 General Cameron took the field, with several regiments of Imperial troops and large militia and native contingents; and a. campaign began which lasted several months, .ending in. the complete defeat of the insurgent tribes; nearly; all whose people, except Te Whili, William. Kirtgi Matakatea, and a few other chiefs, had been engaged in hostilities against us. At the end of this war. in, Septem ber 1865, the whole coast from Wanganui to the White Cliffs, forty miles north of New Ply mouth, was confiscated under the powers of the New Zealand Settlements Acts. But the natives were not driven from their territory. They were all, by very liberal arrangements of the Government, restored to a large part of their country, and continued in seemingly friendly relations with us for nearly three years. Then again in 1868, in sympathy per haps with a renewed outbreak by Te Kooti on the East Coast, a portion of the West Coast natives under Titokowaru raised the standard of rebellion, and swept away nearly all the settlements, over a space of forty miles, which had in the intervalbeen planted in the coun try between Waitotara and Waingongoro. This outbreak ended in the defeat of Titoko waru, who fled' with the most part of his fol lowers through the fastnesses of the great forest into the Ngatimaru country behind Wai tara; while amongst the resident natives nearer Waitotara, the Pakakohi were taken prisoners, and the Ngarauru were removed for a time into the Wanganui district. The country between Waitotara and Waingongoro being again open for settlement, was reoccu pied by our settlers ; and afterwards the Paka kohi and Ngarauru people were brought back and placed on reserves, defined and surveyed for them by the Government, where they have continued to live to the present day. The substantial interests of these restored natives have, in the district now referred to, been well provided for; and, except some questions of minor consequerce, there did not appear to be much to require our intervention. It is north of Waingongoro that there still exist great complications, arising so far as we can dis cover from the vacillating policy of many Go-, vernments.

This extract shows where the greaterr or was made. The Chief, Titokowaru, who has recently come again into notoriety, ffed with his followers into the back bush, but through the indeci sion of the Native Minister they were allowed to return and use the confis cated lands at will. No reserves were marked off for them, and no provision whatever was made for their peaceful dwelling on those confiscated lands, as had been done for other amnestied tribes, and their occupation was simply winked at. Sir Donald M £ Lean was not willing to risk another war, and chose rather a policy of quiescence, still, however, holding, or at least not relinquishing the claim which confisca tion gave to the Government. It was doubtless a critical time, and we do not blame Sir Donald M'Lean for doing what he did. He could have driven Titokowaru off at the bayonet’s point perhaps, or he could have insisted on their return to the land conditionally upon their accepting well defined reserves, or he could let them alone. These three courses, the report tells us, were open to Sir Donald, and he chose the last. The colony in its West Coast war had been aided by the English troops. These were now back in England, while the Native King was demonstrative in his warlike threaten ing, and the arch-fiend, Te Kooti, was still free. The borrowing policy had just begun, and a loan had been floated, to raise which the lenders had been assured that the standard of Maori rebellion was down for ever. At this distance of time, snugly at our firesides, with no armed savages behind our hedges waiting to take a pot-shot at us, we can comfortably discuss andj criticise |Sir Donald’s action; but we can scarcely vouch for any other course we would have chosen than that Sir Donald chose had we filled his shoes at the time. But it is from this choice of his, all the same, that this trouble springs. Mr. Wason, in his last speech to the Coleridge electors, tritely said the Maori was no fool, and the Maori knows well how to take advantage when advantage offers. He knows that war is just as distasteful to the white dweller in the homestead as it is to the dusky dweller in the pah, and he knew it in 1865 as well as he knows it in 1880. He was not slow to seize the opportunity that Sir Donald gave, and to crawl within the proscribed boundary. He knows to-day that only at the yery last moment will the whites take up arms against him, that the colony is not in a position to readily engage in any ex tensive movement against him, and so he becomes defiant, or at least trouble some.

In this report, maugre the sneers that have been thrown at the reporters, and the discredit sought to be cast upon them, there is more given that will tend, properly used, to enable the Le gislature to avoid dangers that lie in the way, and of which no warn ing voice was at hand ta give notice — and to point to the rectification of wrongs done to the Maoris, —and a way to pacify them, than could have been elicited, we believe, from the in vestigations of any other two living men. Both know Maoridom well, and their report shows that a full knowledge of its phases was at their finger ends. It also shows that they know full well where the error was made, and they are

not afraid to bear what blame attaches to themselves in the making of it, to wit:—

Nor are we here to refuse, as members of the Ministry of that clay, pur own share of the blame for having allowed a difficulty to grow up by small degrees, which has since become the unwelcome inheritance of every Govern ment. The wisdom of assigning specific lana to the returned rebels has been proved in Taurua’s case ; nor can it, we think, be reason ably doubted that Titokowaru himself, as well as the tribes which had remained loyal, would at that moment have welcomed and accepted some definite reserves as the condition of his return in peace. Yet no impaitial man will be tempted to condemn the Government, without thinking how great were the difficulties and anxieties which beset them at the time.

THE ASHBURTQN HERALD, MONDAYpAU GUST:/ 16,T880.



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