is here reiterated, that in order to maintain permanently amicable relations with the native population, it will be necessary to support the hereditary influence of the most respectable among the chiefs—by grantingthem small pen sions, encouraging them to inhabit good houses, and foster ing their growing taste for the comforts and conveniences of civilized life. It should be the aim of every colonist of New Zealand to induce the Rangatiras to adopt a clean style of dress, to which it might be advantageous to add distinctive marks, indicative of their rank as chiefs, and their right to be treated with a befitting degree of respect by every member of the community. Although many of the old chiefs would feel the irksomeness of these inroads on their aboriginal habits, it is certain that the young and rising generation would readily adopt every change that it is desirable to introduce into their manners and habits. At the same time, every facility and encouragement should be held out for their mental cultivation, and ad vantage be taken of their strong predilection for prints and engravings, to imbue them with a fondness for the arts of civilization. With these should be combined the constant efforts of the Government to maintain that standard of moral and religious feeling, for which a broad foundation has been laid in the native character by the missionaries. Thus we may hope that the colonization of New Zealand will be attended with a treatment of the native population diametrically opposite to that pursued throughout every stage of colonial history, from the con quest of Mexico to the recent exterminating expeditions of Van Dieman’s Land.