HOUSE OF COMMONS
Sir H. Willoughby (July 17), asked whether tlio Government would object to produce any papers which they had in regard to the New Zealand guarantee for the information of member!). Mr. C. Fortescue said that the information required to justify the measure of the the Government lay within a very narrow compass, and there was no heed for the production' of papers. He would make a statement on a future ataye of the measure which., ha, h,Qped. would satisfy the hon. gontlom«a, (Hear, hear.)
Mr. A. Mills asked whether any despatches had been received by the Colonial Office relating to the disturbances in New Zealand, and whether they would be laid on the table. Mr. C. Fortescue regretted that the despatches which had been received confirmed in the main the accounts in the newspapers. There would be no objection to produce a portion of those depatch cc. Mr. W. Forster (July 231 asked the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies, whether the despatches lately received from New Zealand confirmed the statement in a public journal, that the Governor of New Zealand had sent a request to the Governor-General of India, asking" liim'to' send Sikh torops to aid in suppressing the disturbances in New Zealand. Mr. C. Fortescue said that no application had been made by the Governor of New Zealand to the Governor-General of India. By the last mail, however, Sir George Grey wrote home that there was the greatest leason to apprehend that themurder of the soldiers which had lately .taken place at Taranaki would be the signal for a renewal of the war between the natives and settlers. Under these circumstances Sir Geoige Grey had, with the advice of his ministers applied to her Majesty's Government to augment the force in the colony by one European regiment and two Sikh regiments, it being the opinion of military men out there who had served in India that the latter troops would be remarkably well adapted for warfare in New Zealand.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1961, 24 September 1863, Page 1
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334HOUSE OF COMMONS Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1961, 24 September 1863, Page 1
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