The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10

[Extract from the New Zealand Advertiser. June 1867]

The following appears in the New Zealand Advertiser's Summary of June, 1867, published in Wellington:—"Again we are able to report that no disturbances have taken place with the Natives 6ince we last wrote. The English troops are gradually going, and Colonial troops are idle. At Tauranga, the last place where the disaffection manifested itself, the Arawa contingent has been disbanded, and the Hau-haus have quietly dispersed, or come in and taken the oath of allegiance, being thoroughly beaten and disheartened, and absolutely starved into submission. We believe that the prospect of a sojourn at the Chatham Islands, under an armed guard, and with compulsory work to do, has had more effect in bringing this about than the presence of all the Imperial troops that could be mustered in the island. There seems to be a strange misapprehension in the minds of some of the authorities at home with regard to the retention of a regiment in this Colony. They coneeive that if a regiment is left we are going to pay for it. We are going to do nothing of the sort. The Governor may recommend its retention, but the Ministers elected by the country will take no responsibility in the matter. Let the regiments stay by all means, but let them be solely at the Imperial charge, for we cannot afford to keep up the expensive game of the past six years. We are well enough able to take care of ourselves, including our Maori brothers, without further Imperial interference, and we certainly shall not pay to have that interference."