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No. 4. ME. CHARLES SBOWS TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIE GEORGE GREY, K.C.I!. New Plymouth, New Zealand, 8th February, 1S58. Sib,— I have the honor to transmit for the information of your Excellency, a copy of a communication to the Eight Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies recommending the raising of Native troops in this Colony for service at the Cape of Good Hope or in India. As your Excellency's opinions on the subject are referred to in it in your former capacity as Governor of this Colony, and in your present one of Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, I have taken the liberty of forwarding direct the enclosed; also that your Excellency may have an early opportunity, should you deem it desirable, of affording the Home Government the benefit of your valuable views, and opinions on the subject, which I imagine long since received the full consideration of your Excellency in all its details, and which I have revived at this time, considering it a favorable one for developing the capacity of any of Her Majesty's subjects to defend the Empire. I have, &c, Chables Bbowx, Captain of the New Plymouth Battalion of New Zealand Militia. His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B., &c, " &c, &c", Cape of Good Hope.

No. 5. MB. C. J. BOYLE TO ME. CHARLES BEOWX. Government House, Cape Town, 5th July, 185S. Sib, — T am desired by His Excellency the Governor to acknowledge your letter of the 8th of February last, transmitting a copy of a communication to the Eight Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, recommending the raising of Native Troops in New Zealand for service at the Cape of Good Hope or in India. In reply I have to inform you that His Excellency has written home a despatch upon the subject, in which he states his belief that the New Zealanders would make excellent soldiers, and thai you yourself could be relied on as a good and energetic Officer, and that for many reasons it would be advantageous to enrol such regiments ; but that, as there are already so many races in this Colony, His Excellency would deem it unadvisable expressly to raise a New Zealand Eegiinent for service at the Cape of Good Hope, although there would be no objection to such a Eegiment being raised for general service and coming here for the usual time in the ordinary course of military relief. I have, &c, Chables J. Boyle, Private Secretary. C. Brown, Esq., Taranaki, New Zealand.

No. 6. copy of DESPATCH feoii sir e. b. lytton, baet., to goveenok goee bbowite, c.b. Downing Street, 26th July, 1858. Sib, — With reference to your despatch No. 20, of the 20th of March last, respecting a proposal made by Mr. Charles Brown, for raising in New Zealand a body of Native troops for service, either at the Cape of Good Hope or in India, I transmit for your information copies of a correspondence which has passed upon the subject between this office and the War Department. I have, &c, E. B. Lytton.

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