PROCLAMATION.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1901, 30 July 1863, Page 3

PROCLAMATION.

The following proclamation was published in the New Zealand Government Gazette of the 15th inst. : — G. GREY, 1 Governor, Chiefs of Waikato, Europeans quietly living on their own lands in Waikato have been driven away ; their property has been plundered ; their wives and children have been taken from them. By the instigation of some of you, officers and soldiers were murdered at Tar*naki. Others of yon have since expressed approval of these murders. Crimes have been committed in other parts of the island, and the criminals have been rescued, or sheltered under the color of your authority. You are now assembling in armed bands; you are constantly threatening 1 to come down i the river to ravage the settlfment of Auckland, and to murder peaceble settlers. Some of yon j offered a safe passage through your territories to armed parties contemplating such outrages.

The well disposed among you are either unable or unwilling to prevent these evil acts.

I am therefore compelled for the protection of all, to establish posts at several points on the Waikato river, and to take necessary measures for the future security of persons inhabiting that district. The lives and property of all well-disposed people living on the river will be protected, and armed, and evil-disposed people will be stopped from passing down the river to rob and murder the Europeans.

I miiv call on all well disposed natives to aid the Lieut. General to establish and maintain these posts, and to preserve peace and order.

Those who remain peaceably at their own villages in Waikato 01 more into such districts as may be pointed out by Government, will be protected in their persons, property, and land. Those who wage war against Her Majesty, or remain in arms, threatening the lives of Her peaceable subjects, must take the consequences of their acts, and they must understand that they will forfeit the tight to the possession of their lands guaranteed to them by the Treaty of Waitangi. which lands will be occupied by a population capable of protecting for the future the quiet and unoffending from the violence with which they are vow so constantly threatened. Auckland, lltbJuly, 1863.