TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.

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that of the application of those conditions to the actual circumstances of the case you were to be the judge. That confidence was reposed in you in the full belief that you would discharge your trust, with a,just regard for the interests both of the Colonists anj of the Maories. I told you that while "I did not dispute the right of the Colonial Government to obtain from the punishment of the insurgent Natives some aid in defraying the expenses of the war, or, in other words, of including in the contemplated cession or forfeiture, lands to be disposed of by sale, as well as lauds to be devoted to the purposes of military settlement, yet that these expenses had been mainly borne by this country, which had, therefore, a right to require that the cession or confiscation of territory should not be carried further than might be consistent with the permanent pacification of the Island and the honor of the English name." I observe that your Ministers having failed for the lime in the negotiation of the unguaranteed loan, had determined that some reduction of the colonial expenditure must be effected, and are about to lay before you their proposals for accomplishing that object. If it was necessary to reduce the expenditure of the Colony, the juncture was surely one at which those who represented the Imperial Government were especially bound to take a decided course in reference to all questions upon which the general military expenditure must depend. If they failed to do so it was natural to expect that an addition would be made to the already very serious charge defrayed by the Mother-Country. This might, I think, have been with your Miuisteis another and cogent reason for deferring in those respects to your opinion and that of the General in command. I shall look with anxiety for your next Despatches. The time has now arrived when lam about to communicate finally with the Secretary of Slate for War upon the preparation of his estimates for the coming year. I trust that it will not be necessary to provide for the main, tenance in New Zealand, after the close of the pieseut campaign, of a force larger than that towards which, under the correspondence between this Department and the Colonial Treasurer, New Zealand is expected to contribute. I have, &c, * Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Edward Cardweil &c, &c, &c.

No. 18. {No. 7.) Downing Street, January 26, 1865. Sir, — I have to request that you will inform the Speaker of the Provincial Couucil of Otago, that I have received his Letter dated the loth November last, forwarding a copy of certain Resolutions passed during ihe last Session respecting the existing relations between that Province and the General Government of New Zealand. You will at the same time remind Mr. Richardson that such a document ought to have reached me through the hands of the Governor. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Edward Cardwell. &c, &c, &c.

No. 19. (No. 9.) Downing Street, January 26, 180 * Sir,— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatches of the dates and numbers noted in the margin. 10 Oct. No. 141). I hava read with great satisfaction the Despatch of General CatnJg " " j*g" eron enclosing the Report which he had received from Colonel Warre 27 ,', ," 151°. °' 'be expulsion of the hostile Natives from their positions at Matai--31 '" " 154, tawa and Te Arei on the Bth and lOtb of October last. It is very i J53- gratifying that successes so important to the safety of New Plymouth " •• " jj!g- and its neighbourhood should have been obtained with so little resist--6 * " jgy' ance, and without loss : and yet that General Cameron and Colonel 7 "„ ',' 102. Warre should be able to speak of the circumstances not only as reflect- >, H i, 163. ing much credit ou the forces employed, both Regular and Colonial; 16*- but also as having afforded to friendly Natives an opportunity of showing their fidelity and zeal. I observe also with especial pleasure the high terms in which you speak of the services rendered by Mr. Parris, of the Native Department, in the discharge of his laborious and frequently hazardous duties.