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years ? Less than five years more will complete the century of years 

 since Cook first saw tliem ; how will the last year of that century close 

 upon them? This is difiicult 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 lohat is good 

 and suitahle for Mm) 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 ivell ; 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 Their work done, the military must be all withdrawn from New 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 Grovernment 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 Grovernment and the colonists ; or, if not, 

 the Government of the day onust 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, 

 openly and privately, support the Government, remembering Paul's teach- 

 ing, " The poioers that ie are ordained of GodT 



8. The Governor, the Government, and the various ecclesiastical bodies 

 and settlers generally, must unite, and be as one in these matters. The Maori 

 should he able to see this. 



