Auckland, April l5th, 1853.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIII, Issue 908, 11 March 1856, Page 3

Auckland, April lsth, 1853.

Sir, — 1 have 711 st this moment received youi giatifying ami confidential communication, of fliia clay's date, and 1 assure you, you do me hut justice in acknowledging I posar>?<* a lively interest in the welfare of this Province, and I need haidly state, on this occasion, huw happ\ I should hi- at all times to ad\ance its pro«peiily, by every means in my power consistent with my milit.irv duties From a kindly feeling which 1 shall ever appreciate, I have been ah early informed of the \\i«.li expre*sed in your note, and haung carefully weighed the mattoi in my own mind, I eoniess I do not see how it is possible I could undertake the of^ce of Supeiintendent, so long as I retain my position as Officer Commanding the Troops. My functions \v< uld inevitably clash in the that place, in the second I could iiOt always command my time, and, lastly, I do not conceive I could, as iauking next to the Governor ; and being in immediate succes«ion to that post, ri«k with propriety the consequences of an Election, however sanguine the public mind might be as to the result Indnidually, I would do anything in my power to forward the interests? of Auckland, and the Province I have beeu residing in so long. I ha\e been so closely identified with it from the services in the Noith, to the introduction of the New Constitution, and I have experienced i»uch marked kindness from all classes, that it would be utteily impossible for me to do or feel othciwi'.e, and consequently it is with much regret I do not concehe mjsclf at liberty to come for w aid on the present occasion as a Candida'e for the post you have alluded to, in a manner so flattering to me in every respect. I June iVc, (Signed) R. 11. "WYNYAIiD, Commanding the Foices. T. S. Forsaith, E-q , &c.