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DESPATCHES FROM THE GOVERNOR OE NEW

Chiefs Te Heuheu and Herekiekie waiting for me. They have made their complete submission to the Government, and, in order that their sincerity may be placed in the most unequivocal light, they have undertaken to leave their homes and families, to remain with me as long as I may think necessary, accompanying me to such other parts of the Island as I may visit. 2. Nothing could exceed the satisfaction exhibited everywhere by the Native population at the interior of the Island being again visited by the Governor. I have, &c, The Eight Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P. G. GBEY.

No. 38. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., to the Bight Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P. (No. 35.) Sir, — Kawau, 12th April, 1866. I have the honor to transmit for your information a copy of a Memorandum I have received from my Besponsible Advisers, complaining of failure on the part of the Peninsular and Oriental Company to complete their contract for arriving in Australia with the European Mail on certain specified dates, and suggesting that certain measures should be adopted in consequence of this failure on the part of the Company to fulfil their contract. I have, &c, The Bight Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P. G. GBEY.

Mr. Stafford,

March 28, 1866.

Enclosure in No. 38. Copy of a Memoeaxdoi by Mr. Staffoed. ' ' Eeferring to the Memorandum which Ministers addressed on the sth January to His Excellency, ou the subject of the repeated failure of the Peninsular and Oriental Company to arrive punctually in Australia with the European Mail, on their due dates, Ministers desire to represent to tho Imperial Government that, since that Memorandum was written, the last two monthly mails from Great Britain have again failed to arrive when due, and that considerable pecuniary and other loss to the Colony has thereby ensued. Ministers, after a very considerable experience of the failure of the present contractors to perform the service which they have undertaken, are strongly of opinion that the necessary notice should be given for terminating their contract, and that fresh tenders for the performance of the service should be called for. As complaints have been made, with apparent justice, that in the last call for tenders for the Steam Packet Service between Great Britain and Australia, time was not given for tenders to be received from the Colonies for the performance of that service, Ministers think it desirable that in the next call ample time should be given for that purpose. Wellington, 28th March, 1866. E. W. Staffoed.

No. 39. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., to the Bight Hon. Edward Cardavell, M.P. (No. 36.) Sir,— Baglan, 3rd May, 1866. I have the honor to report that on the Ist instant, William Thompson, in compliance with the wishes I had expressed to him, came to Hamilton to meet me. 2. He spent the greater part of the clay with me, and appeared to be on the whole well pleased with the future prospects of the country. 3. He assured me that in as far as his own tribe was concerned, or those tribes under his immediate influence, no danger whatever existed of any further outbreak; but he explained that great jealousy on the part of Bewi and the Ngatimaniapoto tribe had arisen, from the fact of William Thompson having made his submission to the Government alone, and without having first consulted with Bewi; and he went on to state that Bewi with his immediate followers were at Hang-tiki, about which place and the country in its immediate vicinity they had placed posts marking out boundaries, within which limits they intended to keep themselves in a state of complete isolation, Bewi having stated that he