Native Reserves.

Grey next segregated the Native tribes by setting apart tracts of land for their exclusive occupation. The chief source of trouble with the indigenes in all countries has been, not the invasion of native territories in force, but the steadfast encroachment of settlers on the lands of the Natives as their own give out or their numbers increase. By the assignment of reserves or locations the Kafirs were parked off and protected against the stealthy invasions of the colonists. It is the policy that has been more or less fitfully pursued in other countries that have been at handgrips with the same difficulty. The United States also has set apart such reserves for the Indian tribes, if it has not always kept them sacred. It has been feebly attempted in Australia, and both there and in New Zealand it is now proposed as a settled policy—in Australia, with the object of saving the remnants of the aborigines; in New Zealand, with the intention of appropriating the greater part of the Maori lands, which are no longer wanted for the dwindling Native population. Grey's object was not only to preserve the Kafirs, who were in little danger of disappearing, but also to provide scope for British settlement. We shall see how he aimed at settling the country.