THE GOVERNMENT AND MR COMMISSIONER KYNNERSLEY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 107, 7 May 1868, Page 2

THE GOVERNMENT AND MR COMMISSIONER KYNNERSLEY.

The following letter to Mr. Commissioner Ivynnersley was laid on the table in the Provincial Council last night, aud ordered to be printed : — Superintendent's Office, Nelson, May 6, 1868. Sir — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt o$ your letter of the 18th ult., narrating, for the information of the Government, the occurrences of the previous month at Westport and Addison's Flat. I am directed by the Superintendent to convey to you the special thanks of the Government for the prudence as well as the firmness which have characterised your action under very difficult circumstances, and to congratulate you upon the highly successful result of your exertions, which have secured the vindication and reestablishment of law and order, and have relieved the Government and the Province from the very serious difficulties in which a less firm and a less prudent course on your part would t have involved them. The Superintendent further instructs me to assure you that he considers the colony is greatly indebted to you for the course you have pursued on this occasion, as he is convinced that, had you yielded to the pressing solicitations of a large number of influential and well-intentioned persons in the district under your management and control, a conflict would have ensued between different sections of the community, which would have led to the interruption of industrial pursuits, and most probably to serious loss of life, succeeded by a permanent hostility between different classes of the population, not only in the district within your jurisdicsion as Commissioner of the . South West Goldfields, but also in other parts of the West Coast, most jnjurious to the place, and most disastrous to the prosperity of the whole colony of New Zealand. I have, &c, Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary.