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Enclosure 1 in No. .12 RETURN SHOWING AMOUNT EXPENDED IN GIVING PRESENTS TO, OR ENTERTAINING NATIVES FROM 1st JANUARY, 1846, TO 30th JUNE, 1861.
Note.—This return does not include a sum of £1,790 25., expended during the Native Conference in 1860, in entertaining Natives; nor does it include such payments since Ist January, 1860, as have been considered incident upon the Native insurrection, nor any advances to Natives in the shape of "loans to be repaid." With regard to the amount expended in the year 1852, the particulars are given below ; of the whole amount, £788 Is. lid. were expended in Auckland, under the direction of Lieut.-Governor Wynyard.
Native Office, November 26th, 1861.
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COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM GOVERNOR SIR GEORGE grey TO HIS GRACE TnE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.
Government House, Auckland, 28th November, 1861. My Lord Duke, — I fear that when in England it is heard that an expedition has been contemplated against the so-called Maori King and his capital, it may be imagined that there is some town or fortified post, and some recognized and powerful Prince against whom regular operations can be undertaken. I, therefore, enclose your Grace a sketch of the Maori King's residence, which has just been made by a young lady, on the 18th instant, one of a party of visitors who has just returned from the Waikato, where they were received with the greatest kindness. 2. It will be seen that the King's house is the large ordinary reed-house of a Chief, with one small door and one window; that there are in its neighbourhood a few small reed-huts, where strangers or inferior people may reside. It is situated on the point of land which divides the two rivers, the Horotiu and tho Waipa, which after here joining are called the Waikato. 3. The banks of the river from its mouth to the place where the King resides, —a distance of about 70 miles, —are every here and there studded with Native villages, without fortifications, such as is shown in the enclosed sketch, except that some of them are much larger. The male inhabitants of these villages are warlike, aud thoroughly well armed. The contest, if it unfortunately takes place, will simply be one in which every swamp, stream, wood, and naturally strong position, will be defended by men completely concealed in artfully constructed rifle-pits and breastworks. Village after village will be abandoned as they retire to the forests and mountains; o r
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DESPATCHES FROM GOVERNOR SHI G. GREY
PEEIOD OF EXPENDITURE. AMOUNT EXPENDED. Year ending 30th December, 1846 " " 1847 * " 1848 " " 1849 " ■ 1850 " " 1851 " " 1852 Nine months ending 30th September, 1853 " " June, 1854 Year ending 30th June, 1855 " " 1856 1857 " " 1858 " 1859 " " 1860 1 « 1861 £ s. d. 433 4 6 907 17 10 804 14 3 604 18 5 675 12 2 832 10 4 1,700 4 6 963 2 6 1,104 0 11 1,544 0 10 1,472 10 1 590 1 4 776 3 3 650 3 7 531 3 1 1,340 0 5 14,930 8