DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 391, 20 April 1864, Page 3

DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES.

Downing Street, 25t!i January, 1864. Sir, —I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your Despatches [2nd and 6th November, 1863 j, informing me of the result of several partial engagements that had taken place with the rebellious natives, aed of their abandonment of the position they had taken up at Mcreincre, on the banks of the Waikato river. I have much pleasure in exp esss’ngto you my satisfaction at the gallantry, zeal, and endurance which have been shown by Her Majesty’s Troops, and by the Local Forces, on the occasions referred to in your Despatches. I have, <fec., Newcastle. Governor Sir George Gre3 T , K.C.8., (fee., (fee., efec., Downing Street, 26th January, 1184. Sir, —I have the honour 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 Re' oiution 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 (fee., Newcastle. Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.8., (fee., (fee., (fee., Extract from the, Journals of the House of Tii'P resent a, cites. Friday , the lS(h day of November, 1863. Resolved. That this House having had under its consideration the Despatch of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for tire Colonies, dated the 26th of 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, recognises with the deepest gratitude the great interest which Her Most Gracious Majesty lias always taken in the welfare of all Races of her Colonial subjects, and the thoroughly efficient aid which Her Majesty’s Imperial Government are now affording for the suppression of the Rebellion unhappily existii g, and the establishment of law and order in the Colony, Aid relying on ths cordial co-operation of the Imperial Government for the future, cheerfully accepts the responsibility thus placed upon the Colonists, and at the same time records its fi:m determination to use its best endeavours secure a sound and lasting piece ; 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 Extiact.) D. Monro, Speaker.