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No. 18. COPY 01* A DESPATCH TROM OOTEHSOE SIR GEOEGE (lIIKV. KC.B., TO HIS GEACE THB DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, JC.G. (No. 17.) Government Eouse, Auckland, February 3,1561. Mt Loko Duke, — I have the honour to enclose for your Grace's information, the copy of a report from the Civil Commissioner of the Bay of Islands District regarding the state of feeling amongst the natives of thai part of this Island, which I regard as being upon the whole satisfactory, although I do not think that we are yet quite free from danger in that quarter. 1 liave, &c., liis Grace the Duke of Newcastle, KHG., G. Grey. &c &c. &c. (Extract.) Enclosure in No. IS. CIYIIi COMMISSIONER, VVATMATE, TO THE COLONIAL SECEETAET, _VUCKI..V.\ D. Civil Commissioner's Office, Waimate, January 15, 1861. Sin. 'xcellency the an address, signed by 41 of the principal chiefs of Hokiang 'o . the chief WTharekereru, with translations, thanking his Excellency for a present of ten pounds for services rendered Captain .lames, whose vessel was wrecked nil'the Bluff, Hokianga. ' Referring to the address, written evidently by Aperahama Taonui, who al times is somewhat mary, allusion is made to other letters scut to his Excellency, prophetic of the times which he considers accomplished in the fall of Eangiriri. Tiie suspicions touched upon in the address of possible disaffection in the North appear to me a -on of feeler, intended to draw out from the Government something expressive of what would he the result upon them as a body, if some few rebels committed themselves in the North. The fact is, the decisive measures of the Government and the House of Representatives, in reference to confiscating lands of rebels, has taken them somewhat by surprise, and has been productive of much serious thought amongst the Ngapuhi generally. They know that they have amongst them reckless young men, who bj its might involve the whole tribe in trouble; and our late gu cot i, [ fear, been made use of by injudicious Europeans in a way to create some mistrust. Tho natives have been told that when the Government have carried out its plans of confiscation in the South, it will commence to do the same in the North; and the natives being naturally jealous when they hear these remarks, s onetimes accompanied by threats, they cannot but be a ive of danger; dcs :i must not be • I from the Government that there is, and always has heen, a small branch of the Rarawa, to whom the addr , living at Whangape and HereMno, who have long had the »eeds of disaffection sown amongsl them. If his Excellency could give these chiefs an early reply to their address it would afford them much satisfaction. They are ig people, and upon the whole the most loyal in the district. I have, &c, The Honourable the Colonial Secretary. Georub Clarke, Native Department. Civil Commissioner. Sub-Enclosure. Te Kaupo, Hokianga, December 25,1863. Ab Advertisement or Memorandum to the Governor. 3_TE__> THE GOVERNOR, Salutations. Intelligence of the taking of Rangiriri, and the capture of the 183 prisoners, has arrived here. This fulfils our words (yours ano mine) spoken on the 21st January of the present year. The reason I have written to you is this, to inform you that the clouds and stars (discontents and agitations) which stirred up Taranaki and Waikato, have turned hitherward, and remain in this place; and the scourge (punishment) which has been applied to Taranaki and Waikato will probably ii laid on this end of the island also. \\"e shall see this in the days which are to come, but we (the writers) are aware that the scourge will not belaid on without cause. The misdeeds of the people will bring the punishment. This is our reason for desiring tli.it if you can spare time you will come to _see us. We are well assured of these things, and are now in a state of anxiety. What though the matter which disturbs our minds has not actually taken place, we think it best to be suspicious and wary (that is, in a state of preparation). These matters we have not been informed of by the voice of man, but by the signs of the heavens (by this the writer simply means that they have sufficient reasons for believing that there is a greatprobability of a disturbance in the North ; but do not care to state them more particularly, possibly because they could not do so without bringing charges against some particular parties, who havo as yet

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