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have been left in the pa at Waitotara, and I purpose to hurry on the raising the force of Irregular Cavalry which you require, and some Bushrangers, and also some friendly natives to keep the country clear between this place and the Waitotara. To do this I shall have to request Mr. Jones for the present to make advances from the military chest for the pay and rations of these men. There will be no difficulty with him on this point, as it is only a temporary question. The local Government fand it impossible to raise money here at this moment, and in defraying the expenses of the steamers required to keep open your communication, they are doing all they can do. They are also making arrangements for paying in England by this mail five hundred thousand pounds to the Treasury. ( will let you know by the next opportunity what lias been done with regard to raising men. Pehi has not yet arrived herer- — I send you the copy of a telegram I received from the North to the same effect as those which reached you. I hope the news is not true. I have, Ac, Lieut.-General Sir D. A. Cameron, K.C.B. G. Grey. No. 39. Lieut.-General Sir D. A. Cameron to His Excellency the Governor. My dear Sir George,— Camp on the Patea, Bth March, 1865. I forgot to mention, in my letter to you this morning, that I would strongly advise your applying for a reinforcement of at least 2000 men from England, for you may depend upon it that your plan of occupying the whole line of coast between this and Taranaki cannot be carried out without them. I shall have about 1500 men to start with from this; a reserve of 800 men for about every thirty miles occupied must be kept free to move anywhere; and the remainder will not go far to furnish the posts necessary to keep open the communication. Colonel Warre, as I mentioned when you were here, cannot advance at all from his end of the line. He already complains of the smallness of his force in proportion to the extent of territory he has to occupy. I would also observe, that if anything should occur in any part of the Colony rendering it necessary to send troops there, the reserve of 800 I have mentioned would have to be withdrawn, and the posts depending upon it for support abandoned. I have, Ac, D. A. Cameron, His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Lieut.-General. No. 40. Lieut.-General Sir D. A. Cameron to His Excellency the Governor. My Dear Sib George,— Camp on the Patea, New Zealand, Bth March, 1865. We are beset with difficulties of every kind in this country. The tides are now so low lhat two sailing vessels laden with Commissariat stores are aground near the mouth of the Waitotara river, and cannot get out until their cargoes are taken out of them, w rhich the " Gundagai" is to do for them to-night. As Colonel Weare cannot leave the Waitotara until they have cleared out of the river, he cannot march before to-morrow night, and I do not propose to advance until I know that he is moving this way. The post I leave at the Waitotara is very strong, and provisioned for a month, so that there will probably be no necessity to communicate with it by land for some time to come. In a case of emergency, Colonel Logan could collect 600 regulars, who with the militia, volunteers, and friendly natives would be sufficient to open the communication with the post if necessary. We shall always hear from the steamers how Major Eocke and his detachment are getting on. It will however be a great advantage to have a safe communication by land at all times between Wanganui and the Waitotara, —and for that reason I hope the Government will not be long in raising the Bushrangers and Cavalry, which they might have done more than a month ago, if any of them had thought proper to come to Wanganui at the commencement of our operations. What is the Minister of Defence about ? I should think Yon Tempsky and some of his men would gladly volunteer for service. I do not think that, with the force of regulars and militia you have at Wanganui, there is much reason to feel anxious about the natives at the Wereroa Pa, whose numbers, I have very little doubt, will diminish as we advance. What is Mr. Mantell doing with his army, as he calls the friendly nat ives ? I almost expected to hear that he had led them himself against this pa, which, according to him, " they would take in as short a time as they would require to march thither." I wish he would send us some one who knows the country. I hope hostilities will not break out on the Waikato frontier; but it is not unlikely that Eewi will fake advantage of the withdrawal of so many troops from Auckland. I have, Ac, D. A. Cameron, Lieut.-General. If you call upon us to pay and ration the Bushrangers, Ac, Ac, I suppose we must comply. D. A. C His Excellency Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Ac. No. 41. Lieut.-General Sir D. A. Cameron to His Excellency the Governor. My dear Sir George,— Camp on the Patea Eiver, 12th March, 1865. The " Gundagai " arrived in the river this morning, though without any letter from you ; but

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