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years? Less than five years more will complete the century of years 
since Cook first saw them; how will the last year of that century close 
upon them? This is difficult to answer, not merely because of the 
present sad state of the native mind, and of the dismal fatality hitherto 
attending them; but because of the crotchetty individuals among the 
colonists themselves ;—men, doubtless, who are well-wishers to the 
Maori, but who (through their own cloistered, high-flying, or crotchetty 
views, and want of really understanding the native, and what is good 
and suitable for him) have done them more injury (unwittingly) than 
their bitterest foes. This is the really great obstacle in the way of 
truly benefiting the Maori; and, judging from the past, it appears to 
be all but hopelessly insurmountable. The following, however (or some- 
thing very like it), is believed by the writer to be really needful, in order 
to a better state of things, and to the conservation of the Maori race:— 
I. Preparatory. 
1. The present war must be ended, and ended well; the sooner the 
better. 
2. “Ended well" is to have done so leaving a real salutary impression 
on the native ; that come what will, he will never go to war again with the 
Government. 
3. Their work done, the military must be all withdrawn from New 
Zealand. 
4. The suspicions of the native must be removed ; this will be a work of 
time. 
5. The Colonial Government must have the government of the Maori 
wholly in their own hands. 
6. Individuals, especially those in authority, must, for the common 
good, at once and for ever cease their fruitlessly teasing the native with 
their fine-spun theories, and their secretly writing to powers and parties at 
home against the New Zealand Government and the colonists ; or, if not, 
the Government of the day must gird up their loins to the task, and put 
such persons down with a strong hand, and, if necessary, make a public 
example of them. Above all, pensionaries on the public purse must be 
taught a useful lesson. 
7. All bishops and other ecclesiastics should cheerfully and zealously, 
pes and privately, support the Government, remembering Paul's teach- 
ing, “ The powers that be are ordained of God." 
8. The — the Government, and the various ecclesiastical bodies 
and settlers generally, must unite, and be as one in these matters. The Maori 
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