A correspondence was published in the Standard of yesterday, between
Sir George Grey, ex-Governor of New Zealand, and the Colonial Office, which shows how exceedingly little that office really knows of its own business. Sir George Grey shows that the policy into which Lord Granville wishes to force the colonists, of acknowledging the administrative authority of the Maori Ring, had been already tried and rejected by the followers of that potentate, on the ground that they will take nothing but abso- lute recognition of his independent sovereignty, — and of this fact the Colonial Office appears to have been quite ignorant. But, of course, Lord Granville will be logical, and recommend a rupture of the Empire and a loss to the Crown rather than not meet the Maori King's views,—in which case, as Sir G. Grey observes, he will promote a very much more formidable rebellion on the part of other Maori tribes. '
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