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NATIVE INSURRECTION.

They believe this gratification is shared by a vast majority of their fellow-colonists; and beg to assure your Excellency that, should the course which your Exceile: cy has taken ;ind expressed your determination to pursue, require the active assistance of the Colonists, the service which this Company has placed ;it your Excellency's commaud will be heartily rendered in the vindication of an unswerving maintenance of the honor and rights of the Crown. In the name and by appointment of the Company, (Signed) Michael Keiley, Lieutenant Commanding City Company A. V. Rifles. " J. M. Clark, 2nd Lieutenant A. V. Rifles, tlis Excellency Col. T. Gore Browne, Governor of New Zealand.

No. 46. HIS BXCELLENCT THE GOVERNOR TO THE CITY COMPANY OP AUCKLAND VOLUNTERE RULES. Government House, 3rd May, 1860. Gentlemen, — I beg , you to accept and convey to the rest of your Company my best thanks for the expressions of confidence contained in the Address, and for the good feeling which has prompted its presentation to me. I thank you and them also for the readiness with which you have offered your services in the defence of the Province. Should they be required for active operations, I sh;>ll gladly avail myself of such valuable aid. I have reason, however, to think that the spirit of disaffection is not likely to spread beyond Tyanaki. I have, &c, (Signed) T. Gohe Browne. Lieut. K-eilpy, The City Company of Auckland Volunteer Rifles.

No. 47. SPEAKER OF PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF WELLINGTON TRANSMITTING ADDRESS OF PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. Council Chamber, Wellington, 17th May, 1860. Sir, — I have the honor to enclose the copy of an Address to His Excellency the Governor, passed by the Provincial Council on the lGth instant, and to request you will place the same before His Excellency without delay. I have, &c. (Signed) George Hart, Speaker. Captain F. G. Steward, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand.

Enclosure in No. 47. To His Excellency Colonel T. Gore Browne C.8., Governor of New Zealand, Sfc, ftc. * May it please Your Excellency,— The Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington seizes the earliest opportunity to express to Your Excellency its earnest hope that the most vigorous measures may bu taken to suppress the Native rebellion against the Queen's authority at Taranaki, and its deep sympathy with those Colonists who have suffered thereby in life, health, and property. While this Council cannot venture to decide on the expediency, or to conjecture the probable result of all the details of the Military operations hitherto pursued for the quelling , of that rebellion or the punishment ofbarbarous murderers, it confidently trusts that your Excellency will persevere in the most i B and unceasing efforts to compel the just fulfilment of the treaty of Waitangi, to inflict - ment on the murdering invaders of our territory, to maintain the undivided authority of Her Majesty the Queen throughout this Colony, and to place every portion of it in a position to defy any future attack that might be designed. For these objects the Council believes that it agrees with every loyal subject in assuring your Excellency of its cordial co-operation and support. (Signed) George llart, Speaker.

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