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DESPATCHES EROM THE SECRETARY OE STATE

the other; and that, in this state of disorder, the first Native murder arose out of a transaction in the course of which some persons acting for Government had certainly committed an irregularity. To this I attach little weight. All the information which I receive disposes me to believe with Mr. Cooper, the Ender Secretary for Native Affairs, that " there was another, larger, and more generally " operative incitement to rebellion, in the hope of recovering land and status, " which grew up gradually after the withdrawal of General Cameron's army of " occupation." I have, &c, Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G. GRANVILLE.

No. 16. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Earl Granville, E.G., to GovernorSir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G. (No. 109.) Sir, — Downing Street, 7th October, 1869. With reference to your Despatch No. 80, of the 4th of July last, I have the honor to enclose a Dormant Commission, appointing Sir George Alfred Arney, Enight, the Chief Justice of New Zealand, or the Senior Judge for the time being, to be the Administrator of the Government of that Colony in the absence of the Governor. I should wish you to retain this Commission in your hands for the present, only taking precautions to secure that it will be forthcoming in case circumstances should require Sir G. Arney to assume the Government. I have, &c, Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G. GBANVILLE.

No. 17. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Earl Granville, E.G., to Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G. (No. 114) Sir, — Downing Street, 7th October, 1869. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 84, of the Bth of July, forwarding reports and other documents relating to the progress of warlike operations in New Zealand, and to the general condition of the Colony. I have, &c, Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G. GRANVILLE.

No. 18. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Bight Hon. Earl Granville, E.G., to Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G. (No. 115.) Sir, — Downing Street, .7th October, 1869. Before this Despatch reaches you, you will have received my answer to your telegram of the 7th of August, in which you inform me that the General Assembly has passed resolutions praying for the detention of the 18th Regiment "as a garrison and moral support," and that an Act has passed " binding the " Colony to pay whatever contribution the Imperial Government may demand." I have now before me your Despatch No. 103, of the sth of August, in which you enclose, among other papers, copies of those resolutions and of the Act passed in accordance with them. I remark that the Act and the resolutions do not exactly correspond with what your telegram had led me to expect. They do not refer to the detention of the troops "as garrison or moral support," —very important words, as indicating, if they had been used, that the Assembly did not require Her Majesty's troops to move out of the principal