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Rh since) a powerful one, and composed of many able warriors. You can also tell Warru loong that all the native tribes belonging to this portion of the Morray (say sixty miles up from Mooroondu) are reduced in numbers,

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intelligence of various descriptions has been received from this part of the globe, the particulars of which must be reserved for the next Number. In the meantime, however, we must inform our readers that a quarrel has arisen be tween some of the native tribes, on which occasion the bishop nobly came forward as a peacemaker. Nevertheless, it was feared that the military force, under the authority of the Government, would have to be called into action to quell the disorder. An occurrence of this kind is a strong confirmation of the views taken by the Aborigines' Protection Society, when the constitution of New Zealand was receiving the consideration of the British Parliament. Had those views been examined, and the suggestions offered in some small degree adopted, the recent evils, which we fear are but the beginning of greater, might have been averted.

When the late Sir W. Molesworth was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Committee of the Aborigines' Protection Society concluded, as on similar occasions, to address the new colonial minister. Two appointments were made by him for the reception of the deputation, both of which he was prevented from keeping.

When his death was announced, the Secretary took upon him, self to forward the address, which had been prepared, to John Ball. Esq., the Under Secretary with whom Sir W. Molesworth had acted, and it is very gratifying to have to record, that the address was most politely acknowledged in a reply which conveyed the information that the address had been passed to Lord Palmerston.

It has been the practice of the Aborigines' Protection Society to address each Secretary of State for the Colonial Department on his accession to office, in order to plead with him on behalf of the aboriginal inhabitants of the British Colonies, whose rights and interests have been too generally overlooked. . When the name of Sir W. Molesworth has been mentioned in connexion with the affairs of the British Colonies, it has been associated with those