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have not the intention of attempting any such interference, and in pointing out that nothing that I have ever written to you—certainly not that of requiring full information from Her Majesty's Representative in respect to the Colony of Avhich he administers the Government—can properly be taken as indicating such an intention. At any rate, you are now at liberty to disclaim it in the most positive terms. The passage which you quote from my Despatch has been so misunderstood, that it may be well, in conclusion, to explain its purport and meaning with a fulness which would otherwise have been unnecessary. The late Maori insurrection, as we are all aware, had assumed the dimensions of an internal war, justifying the employment of military methods for its repression, and requiring the application of some modification of the laws of war, as these laAvs are applicable to rebels and savages. The present disturbances appear, at first sight, or at any rate, appeared when my Despatch was written, to be a revival of that internal war, likely to call for the same military methods, and requiring that those methods should be mitigated by the same rules. But the offering of a reward for the person of a hostile leader " whether alive or dead" is so much at variance with the usual course of civil or military proceedings, that, without pronouncing it to be wrong on account of that variance, I considered it the duty of the Governor, in giving Her Majesty's Government an authentic account of the facts of the insurrection, to record this fact and its justification. If this had been done at once I should not probably have addressed you at all on the subject. On the explanation now offered I observe as folloAvs : — I do not clearly understand how you justify this notice as a matter of law. I understand you to disclaim the application of martial law; and viewing Titokowaru merely as a notorious, but untried and unconvicted, rebel and murderer, I am not aAvare of any Colonial enactment which Avould make it lawful for any chance person to shoot him down. I have, &c, GRANVILLE. Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G.

No. 11. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Earl Granville, K.G., to Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G. (No. 125.) Sir, — Downing Street, sth November, 1869. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 101, of the 4th of August, reporting the employment of Captain Young on duty in the Waikato Districts, and relating to general questions of military defence. I have been in communication with the Secretary of State for War with respect to the employment of Captain Young, and I have to inform you that Mr. Secretary Cardwell sees no objection to his employment in the manner reported by you. With regard to the general course pursued by you in connection with the Native rebellion, you need not doubt that you are acting in full accordance with my wishes in constantly recommending to the Colonial Government that the great end to which their energies should be continually directed is the termination of the present insurrection. The Ministry themselves are under such overpowering inducements to this course, and the Einancial Statement of the Treasurer so clearly shoAVS that they are alive to the difficulties of their situation, that I can hardly expect that any observation of mine would render them more sensible of the necessity of concluding the war. It would be useless, at this distance from the scene of trouble, to offer recommendations of detail, but such general views as I have been able to form with 16