THE GOVERNOR'S RECALL.

Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 198, 2 October 1867, Page 2

THE GOVERNOR'S RECALL.

From papers presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command ot bis Excellency the Governor, we take the following copies of despatches : — Copy of a Despatch from Governor SirGeorae - Grey, KCB., to the Right Hon. the Duke of Buckingham. Government House, Wellington, 30th August, 1867. My Lord Duke,— l had the honor, on the 27th instant, of receiving your Grace's Despatch, No. 37, of the 18th June, last, communicating to me my recall from the Government of this colony. 2. I beg to be allowed to remark on one statement your Grace has been* Mi' to make erroneously in that despatch. 3. Your Grace is pleased to say that in my despatch of the 4th of April, No. 30. I promised .to send", by another opportunity the further expression of my views on the subject of your predecessor's despatches referring to military operations in New Zealand. ' 4. Tour Grace must pardon me for saying that I did not do this. In my Despatch No. 30, of the 4th of April, I merely transmitted to Lord Carnarvon a memorandum from my responsible advisers. The language which your Grace has been led to attribute to me is an exact quotation word for word from that memorrandum, and is the language of my responsible advisers. 5. 1 have been anxious at once to correct the error to which I have alluded* as it might prove to be one of much importance. I have, &C-, G. Grey. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. Copy of a Despatch from Governor Sir George Grey, KC.B., to the Right Hon. the Duke of Buckingham. Government House, Wellington, 6th September, 1867. My Lord Duke— l have, the' honour to transmit to your Grace a letter I have received from the Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, enclosing an address to the Queen, earnestly praying her Majesty to cause steps to be taken to put an end to the practice which has grown up in some of the Imperial Departments of State of receiving letters from Imperial officers, all knowledge of which has been withheld from the Governor of the couutry, and making further representations, which her Majeßty is humbly requested to take into consideration. I have, &c, G. Grey. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. [The enclosure referred to is copies of addresses (already printed) voted on the 4th of September by the House of Representatives to her Majesty and to his Excellency, in which they severely reprobate Col. Weare's calumnies, and the custom of allowing unauthorized statements to influence the action of the Colonial Office.] Copy of a Despatch from Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., to the Right Hon. the Duke of Buckingham. Government House, Wellington, 7th September, 1867. My Lord Duke— l have the honor -to transmit an address which I have this day received from the Legislative Council of New Zealand, which they wish me to communicate to your Grace. 2. I propose on another occasion to write to your Grace regarding this address, if I find it necessary to do so . At present my position is such that I find it difficult to decide how I should write on the subject. 3. In one short paragraph of your Grace's Despatch, No. 37 of che 18th of June, I am informed in one short sentence that I had said that which I never said, and in the next short sentence I am told that my successor in this Government is to be appointed. After so many years' service, such an intention, so communicated, bears, until further explanation, the appearance of intentional censure. This and other circumstances connected with the proceedings of the military authorities, and the position in which the action of the Home Government has placed me, in reference to those proceedings, make me anxious carefully to review the whole question, and to hear further from your Grace before I write upon the matter. I have, &c, G. Grey. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.