POSTSCRIPT.
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POSTSCRIPT.
P.S.--The following extract of a letter from Auckland, New Zealand, under date of the 16th March, 1848, is too important to be omitted. The last advices are of the 18th of the same month.
"A Despatch from Earl Grey, the Colonial Secretary, to Governor Grey here, directs measures to be taken by the Government for obtaining land in New Zealand, the property of the Natives, under pretence of its being waste-land, of which there is not an inch in the Island unclaimed by a Native owner:--and all this in direct violation of the Treaty of Waitangi, signed by the Chiefs, and by Her Majesty's duly authorized representative, Captain Hobson, the Governor.
"Before the New Zealanders will suffer such fraud and perfidy to be practised upon them, they will combine to a man and defend their property, while they are in a position to do so.
"This may be matter for you to grapple with; strong protests have gone hence to the Colonial Office; but what have we to hope from a
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quarter whence such a scheme could by any possibility have been devised? Let all England utter a voice that shall be heard hereon."
WALTER LAWRY.
General Superintendent of Wesleyan Missions in New Zealand, &c.
