36 THE EIGHTEENTH WAR : IN NEW ZEALAND. 



and the palace of the Prince shelled, and, says the Admiral, " The 

 entire town of Kagiosima is now a mass of ruins." 



Well might Mr. Cobden, in writing on this barbaric act of the 

 British Admiral, denounce this cruel proceeding : — 



"Picture," said Mr. Cobden, "this great Commercial Centre reduced 

 in forty-eight hours to a heap of ashes ; try to reaUse the fate of 

 its population, and then ask what great crime they had committed 

 to bring on themselves this havoc and destruction ? " 



To the shame and confusion of England the answer must be, that 

 this was the way in which English men, under the command of 

 Admirals Kuper and Neale, administer justice for the murder of an 

 individual 10,000 miles away, of which crime the inhabitants of 

 Kagiosima were guiltless of all knowledge and complicity, and after 

 wards the Chief Actors in this outrage on humanity, cooly laid claim 

 to the approbation of the British Nation. 



THE EIGHTEENTH WAR: IN NEW ZEALAND. 



1860-64. 



A writer in 1864 well observed: "It would be difficult to put one's 

 finger upon a single year within the century when Englishmen were 

 not engaged in shedding human blood." 



From the day of British Colonization in New Zealand this terrible 

 charge, alas ! is too true. British policy in New Zealand has been to 

 exterminate the noblest aboriginal race which British adventure and 

 British prowess has subjugated; and this fate of the Maories is all the 

 more shocking, when we remember how much Missionaries have 

 done to effect their civilization. 



What was the cause of the New Zealand War ? It arose out of a 

 purchase of land of 600 acres from one chief, called Teira, which was 

 claimed by another chief, called Kingi ; a tract of land purchased by 

 the Governor of New Zealand. The invalidity of the purchase 

 was generally recognised, and therefore the injustice of the War. 

 A sanguinary struggle in the Province of Taranaki was the result ; and, 

 at its close. Governor Sir George Grey, who had succeeded Governor 

 Brown, ordered that the land should be restored to its lawful 



