WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1875. The attention of all men throughout the world, more or less, is directed to the acquisition of wealth and property as a means of subsistence for them- selves and their families; and wealth can only be ac- quired by means of knowledge and industry. If a man do not get knowledge, he cannot get wealth; he must be content to live in an humble position, with- out power or influence to hand down to his children after him that they may occupy a respectable position in the world, and be looked up to by their fellows. The man who has true affection for his children will be grieved to see them growing up in ignorance, because he knows that education, added to skill and industry, are means by which they may attain to a position of comfort and independence when he, their guide and support, is taken from them. Therefore the Pakehas are all anxious to send their children to school. The European education which it is now necessary for the Maori youth to acquire would have been, comparatively speaking, useless in the olden days of Maoridom; because the habits and customs, and the social position of the people, were so differ- ent to what they are now becoming. In those days the people had everything in common, and a man's subsistence did not so much depend upon his own individual exertions as upon the industry of the people as a whole, moreover their wants were fewer and more easily supplied. Now, however, when civilization is making such rapid strides over the land, and the Pakehas are increasing so greatly, the Maori youth must look forward to a time when they and the Pakeha race will be merged into one people, when it will become necessary for them to acquire a know- ledge of the habits and customs, and language of the Europeans, and when the welfare of each one of them will depend upon his own individual exertions. If their knowledge be not then equal to that of the Pakeha, they will be left behind in the struggle for existence. The Pakeha, though he be only a poor