It is our woik at piesent. But would it not be fai wiser that the Genet al Government should form this territory into a separate piovince, and should create a special and provisional machinery for founding in it one or more new colonies ' The comse of founding a colony is now a well known and beaten one. So much money must bebonowed, and seemed on the land; the towns must be laid out and smveyed, loads made, wharves and jetties built, nnd all the vanous depart ments of Government put together, and wound up, and set going, and the whole machineiy created out of which, at some future time, a levenuo is to bo evoked, which will xepay the outlay an bundled fold."

boldly against the Government &)/ pottering, our old friend the New Zealander falls foul of us. We cannot support Sir George Grey simply because he is up holding a peace policy. We believe his policy witl not lead to peace but to «w»r. What Sir George Giey might have become had tho House of Representatives not turned tail at the Bpirit of responsibility which its incantations iv former Sessions had called up, we cannot say. His Excellency seemed to us to take tho part of a great nnd prudent leader when he called on the people to take the ■position and the duty assigned to them by the natural development of the Constitution. For »11 that has followed the Assembly is responsible. If then we attack Sir George Grey, through him we aim at tho cowardico and folly of the Assembly, ■which forced the Governor into a position in which it was impossible not to be mischievous. In all Sir George Grey's published intercourse •with the natives, we have hardly read of one inter view iv which he propounded definitively, clearly, and positively, what he,was going to do on behalf of the Crown. The whole character of his speeches seems to us to have been what is called in slang 4 ' keeping dark. 