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tribe of the notorious Chief Eewi, leader of the Awamatu press outrage; and also forty of the Taupo people are with him. Pehi may be able to restrain his own people, but men of another tribe may not be so easily kept back from plunder by him. John "White, RJ.

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No. 3. copy of DESPATCH rsou goveenoe sib geobge ghey, k.o.ij., to his grace the duke of NEWCASTLE, K.G. Government House, Auckland, 8th August, 1863. My Lord Duke, — I have the honor to transmit for your Grace's information, copies of the letters named in tin- margin, which show that large numbers of influential Native Chiefs by no means sympathize with or participate in the various dreadful and illegal acts which are now being committed by some of their countrymen. I have, &c, G. Grey His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G.

Enclosure 1 to No. 3. CIVIL COMMISSIONER, WAIMATE, TO GOVERNOR SIE GEORGE GREY, E.C.B. Civil Commissioner's Office, Waimate, July 21st, 18G3. Sir,— I have the honor herewith of forwarding to you two Addresses to His Excellency the Governor, from the Loyal Chiefs, and other Natives of the Hundred of Hokian^a. The translations affixed have been made by Mr. Webster, Interpreter to "the Resident Magistrate of that Hundred. ° One of the Addresses is signed pretty numerously, and although probably by not more than a fourth part of the adult male population, on account of Native etiquette and other usages, yet it fairly represents the whole community. The Address signed by the seven principal Chiefs at the Heads of Hokianga (who are too proud to linve their names associated with the vulgar) represents not less than 400 adult males. An Address from the Hundred of Kororareka to His Excellency, I hope to send by an early convenience. I was unwilling to lose the present opportunity of forwarding the Addresses from Hokiano-a ; and having only just received them, there has been no time to prepare a better translation, such" as otherwise I should have wished to have been made, but as the Government is well supplied with Maori scholars, this omission will not, I hope, be attended with any inconvenience. I have, &c, George Clarke, _ _. _ _, Trn-B Civil Commissioner. Governor sir George Grey, K.C.B. Eawene, Hokianga, June 8th, 18G3. Friend Governor, — Salutations. The tidings have arrived of your narrow escape from danger, and the killin°- of the soldiers during peace ; an evil murder is the thing given in return for your good work. This is what darkens our thoughts. Great is our love to you, and our hearts are sorry for this evil work. The people are killed like dogs. There are two things to be considered—your power to put down this evil, and your power to raise up peace as safety for the people and all the land. Peace has been severed ; life has been rejected. Friend, Governor, leave them to want • here the cold of the South is pricking the skin—namely, the evil tiding of the murder. It is not a war against you alone, this war ; the war is against us all. The Ngapuhi are ready to rise, and seek the danger that lies before them. Do not say it is a thing of no consequence these words j no, the head of those thoughts were those laid before you on the 5th day of November, 1862 ; therefore, we say you search for persons who have knowledge of these events, on the East Coast or elsewhere. Secondly, we have heard that the Governor has called loudly to Matutaera, to Te Paea to Wiremu Tamehana, to Patara, to all the people, to the children of his old friend Potatau, to stand to

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DESPATCHES FROM GOVERNOR SIR G. GREY