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FURTHER PAPERS RELATIVE TO

No. 5. copy of the terms offered by the govkrnor to the taranaki and ngatiruanui, lo the Chiefs of the Taranaki (or Ngatiruanui) Tribe. Before I leave New Plymouth I will state to you the terms on which I am willing to grant you peace. In dictating these terms I cannot overlook the outrages that you have committed. Whatever may have been the dispute in reference to the land at Waitara it was a matter with which you had no concern. Without even pretence of quarrel with the Queens Government, or her European subjects, you have taken advantage of the disturbances caused by another tribe to set the authority of the Queen and the law at defiance ; to attack her Majesty's troops ; to burn, destroy, and steal property ; and treacherously kill without provocation Her Majesty's subjects while engaged in their peaceful occupations. Moreover, you have driven off the settlers from land which, years ago, you had sold and been fully paid for, and have avowed your intention of re-possessing yourselves of it and retaining it by force. However much I may condemn the offences committed by the Ngatiawa, I look on those perpetrated by you to be of a far more serious nature, and before I can consent to grant you peace I shall require restitution and compensation for the past, and explicit declaration of your intention to •conduct yourselves as peaceable and orderly subjects of Her Majesty for the future. I require—■ 1. Entire submission to the Queen and the Law. 2. All plunder now in your possession to be forthwith given up, and compensation made for that which is not returned, and for property destroyed and injured. 3. That all mails shall be permitted to pass without interruption, and the mail carriers protected. 4. That people, goods, and cattle shall be allowed to pass without molestation. The grave offence of killing unarmed settlers and children is one against the Queen and the Law, and will not be overlooked. Whenever those men who are charged with having committed that offence are taken by the Officers of Justice they will be tried, and the law will declare whether they are guilty, and, if guilty, what punishment they shall suffer. T. Gohe Browne, Governor. Ngamotu, April 15, 1861.

No. 6. copy of a warrant of appointment tome, rogan. By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c, &c. To John Rogan, of Auckland, Esquire, Greeting : ( Whereas certain Aboriginal Natives of the Ngatiawa Tribe have lately been in arms at Taranaki, in our Colony of New Zealand, in Insurrection against our Royal authority : And whereas in or about the month of April last, I, the Governor, in stating the terms on flhich the submission of the said Natives would be accepted on behalf of Her Majesty, did declare that all the land then in possession of Her Majesty's Forces, belonging to those who had borne arms against should be disposed of by me as I might think fit ; and did further declare my intention to divide the said land among its former owners, reserving the sites of the Blockhouses and Redoubts erected thereon, and exercising the right of making roads in the Waitara District at Taranaki as aforesaid : And whereas the land so in possession of Her Majesty's forces is bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Waitara River, and proceeding thence along the South bank of the said River to Te Arei pa, thence by a line from Te Arei pa to the southernmost of two roads leading from the said pa to Huirangi Redoubt, thence by a line following the edge of the forest till it strikes the Waiongona River, thence by the Waiongona River to the sea, and thence by the sea to the commencing point: And whereas for the purpose of carrying into effect the said terms of submission, and of ascertaining who are entitled to the benefit of the said declaration, it is necessary that some person should be appointed for the purpose, and with the powers hereinafter contained. Now, I, the Governor, having taken into consideration your diligence, ability and discretion, do hereby appoint you, the said John Rogan, to ascertain and mark out upon the ground the extent, position and boundaries of the several proprietary rights subsisting prior to the said insurrection of every individual, family and section of the Ngatiawa tribe who has or have been in arms as aforesaid, to land within the boundaries hereinbefore described, and to make proper surveys and plans of the same, and also to lay out such roads in the Waitara district aforesaid as shall be hereafter designated

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