CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. (From the " New Zealand Spectator," June ll.)

ing Wi Tako whose declaration of allegiance we published on Saturday last — assign as the reason for the change in their views-agd^con. duct, that while'they had joined "kingism 5 ' be cause they thought it a good thing, they noV see by what has taken place— by the fanaticism that threatened such evils and had led to such deplorable resists, that it was bad, and there fore they had given it up. Men who thus reason from effects to the causes by which they have been produced, are surely anything but the "savages" that they are too often called, and it may be added that men who thus act undef the guidance of reason rather than of feelings are just those who may be most safely trusted^ Besides there are also "material guarantees" on their part. Remembering the land that has been bought, and the property 1 that is now held by natives in various parts of this Pro vince, it is quite easy to see that self interest must have no small weight with them, when considering the issues pf peace or .war, and that they do consider them what has just been said will prove. On the whole, though we do not think the 1 advice of Sir Harcourt Lees to the Irish, "Trust in God> and keep your powder dry," is as jet altogether inapplicable, there does seem good reason to look hopefully to the future^ That temper, prudence, and even forbearance are still needed, it would be folly to deny ; that perfsverance in the course hitherto adopted will be productive of the same results that have cccurred up to the present time, is equal ly without doubt. There are broad tracts of fair and rich land in this province which there is good ground, to believe will be occupied ere long by peaceful and prosperous communities, which, having been, acquired *at the price the' Waikato land has cost, and it will be a com fort to our children's children to feel that though they occupy the lands which once he j longed to the aborigines, yet that no native suffered injustice at the hands of their fore fathers. 