LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 172, 29 April 1864, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Rumours are afloat in relation to the do.ngs of the Natives in this Province of a very unsatisfactory nature. We hear re-

ports of drillings and armings, and all sorts of warlike and rebellions doings going on amongst them. We are not prepared to say how far these reports are correct, but we are prepared to say that the Civil Commissioner, if he can find time to attend to the matter, ought ■ o take action and at least throw more light upon the subject, and thus sooth the ruffled feelings of the Queen’s lieges. We extract the following from a ‘ Gazette’ dated April 6: — Downing Street, 26th January, 1864. Sir, —I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 156, of the 7th of November, transmitting copy of a Resolution* (printed below) adopted by the House of Representatives, accepting the responsibility for the management of Native Affairs. I observe with great pleasure the spirit in which the House of Representatives has accepted this trust, and I hope that the simple and vigorous words with which their Resolution closes may live in the recollection of the New Zealand Colonists, and guide their Native policy so long as the Maories continue a separate race. I have, &c., Newcastle. Governor Sir George Grey, E.C.8., &c., &c., &c. *JExtract from the Journals of the House of Representatives, Friday, the 6th day of November, 1863. Resolved, That this House having had under its consideration the Despatch of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated the 26th February, 1863, conveying the fixed determination of Her Majesty’s Imperial Government to revoke the arrangement of 1856, and for the future to require the Colonists to undertake the responsibility of the management of Native affairs, recognizes with the deepest gratitude the great interest which Her Most Gracious Majesty has always taken in the welfare of all Races of her Colonial subjects, and the thoroughly efficient aid which Her Majesty’s Imperial Government is now affording for the suppression of the Rebellion unhappily existing, and the establishment of law and order in the Colony, and relying on the cordial co-operation of the Imperial Government for the future, accepts the responsibility thus placed upon the Colonists, and at the same time records its firm determination to use its best endeavours to secure, a sound and lasting peace; to do justice impartially to both races of Her Majesty’s subjects and to promote the civilization and welfare of all classes of the inhabitants of these Islands. (True Extract.) D. Monro, Speaker.