, (Anstralidn and Neio Zealand Gazette.) ■ As regards New Zealand, the last mail re. ported that the Colonial Government have as sumed the administration of native affairs in a. manner which must rather astonish the Colo nial-office and will fearfully excite the indigna tion of the Aborigines' Protection Society and /the missionary bodie3*wbich affect a peculiar iu \ fcerest in the New Zealanders. By a recent pro clamation,, the Waikato lands are not only de , blared to be confiscated, but volunteers have .been raised both in New Zealand and Australia, on the premise of allotments in the confiscated .districts. We do not for a moment dispute the jpolicy of ibis step ; indeed, it is the only vigor i ous act which has as yet characterised Sir George Grey's tenor of office, and there is little doubt • but that it will be ratified by the Colonial Legis lature; but, as we were told in the first instance that the Taranaki dispute arose out of the inor dinate greed of the settlers for the native lands 'We\ shall now hear that the sole object of the j struggle is to exterminate the Maories by most barbarious and unchristain means. Luckily, the Colonial-office has.abjured its authority and the colony has taken it at its word, so that philo .Maori and missionary influence can no longer ■ be brought to bear at home, and in the colony pnblic opinion is too thoroughly aroused to listen to the outcries of the self-assumed native pro jectors, who, to do them justice, have at last, -although somewhat too late, abandoned the de fence of their rash and obstante protegees. The British Government, it must be said to its pecu liar honour,, has ever faithfully complied with the terms of the treaty of Waitangi. It bas '^carried 'out -every one of its engagements to the "letter. It has acknowledged the rights of the chieftain over bis tribe and of the tribe over its land. It bas never taken, except by fair bar -1 gain and at the uatives' «wn price, a single acre. of land belonging to tbe Maories. It has claim- Ted; nothing, in short, except the right of sove. Teignity expressly granted in the treaty. 