NEW ZEALAND TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE

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No. 1. Mr. G. H. Heebeet to His Honor F. A. Caeeib'gtoh". Sib,— New Plymouth, 14th February, 1872. Reverting to the Colonial Secretary's letter to your Honor, dated Wellington, 30th June, 1871, and copy of Despatch from Secretary of State forwarded therewith, I am directed by the Discharged Soldiers' Association to inform you that the gratuity referred to in Sir E. Lugard's letter is not the gratuity for which they applied, and therefore does not meet the expectations or claims of the memorialists. The gratuity applied for by the discharged soldiers, in their memorial of June, 1870, is that mentioned at page 6 of the Soldier's Account Book for 1838, and at page 7 of the Soldier's Account Book for 1858, extracts from which arc attached to the enclosed applications, which we hope your Honor will be pleased to forward for the recommendation and approval of His Excellency the Governor, and transmitted to the Secretary of State. I have, &c, His Honor the Superintendent, Taranaki, G. H. Heebeet, Secretary, New Zealand. Discharged. Soldiers' Association.

No. 2. To His Excellency Sir George Eeesttson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in- Chief of New Zealand, &c, &c, &c. The Memorial of the undersigned, Humbly Sheweth, — That your Memorialists are discharged soldiers from Her Majesty's service, and have selected the land to which they were entitled under " The "Waste Lands Act, 1858," in the Hua and Waiwakaiho and Tarurutangi Districts. That they are entitled, as appears by the small book issued to each soldier on his joining his regiment, to a gratuity of 6d. a day for three months, to be increased to twelve months at the discretion of your Excellency, provided that they are settled and industriously employed on their land. That your Memorialists are unable to settle on their land for want of roads, and are therefore deprived of the gratuity to which they are entitled. That your Memorialists, in November, 1869, offered to surrender to the Provincial Government of Taranaki their claim to the above gratuity for the purpose of getting roads made to their land. Your Memorialists, therefore, humbly solicit your Excellency to recommend the Eight Honourable the Secretary of State for War to authorize the payment of the gratuity, we hereby agreeing to devote the same for the purpose of opening the roads to our lands. And your Memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

Corps. Regimental No. Rank. Signature. 65th Regiment 65th „ 65th „ 65th „ 65th „ 65th „ 65th „ 57th 57th „ 57th 57th 57th 57th 58th „ Royal Artillery, No. 2 Co., 6 Batt. 70th Regiment ... 70th 43rd „ 57th 57th „ 57th 65th „ 57th 57th 57th 65 th „ 70th 65th „ 65th „ 65th „ 65th ,, 43rd 65th „ 43rd 65th „ 1814 ... 3135 ... 1193 ... 1277 ... 2811 ... 3015 ... 2992 ... 1644 ... 2504 ... 2496 ... 2546 ... 2189 ... 2538 ... 2212 ... Sergeant Corporal Sergeant Private ,, Hospital Sergeant Private Nicholas G-olding. William Bennett. Hugh Barley. John Dunn. John Doherty. Thomas Greddes, his X mark. Jeremiah Healey, his X mark. James Hill. M. O'Donnell. 0. Ansford. Patrick Houlahan, his x mark. Bartholm Stagpool, his X mark. John Hardgrave. Greorgo Williams, his x mark. William Stockley. ,, ,, ,, Sergeant 57 ... 2222 ... 408 ... 357 ... 2412 ... 3112 ... 2847 ... 2478 ... 2469 ... 2441 ... 3160 ... 3232 ... 2826 ... 2750 ... 3368 ... 3701 ... 2958 ... 2231 ... 506 ... 2915 ... Orderly-room Clerk Sergeant Private 3) . ,, ,, Edmund Dover. W. Appleyard. John Ellis. P. Hall. Patrick Ryan, his X mark. Martin Mulloy, his X mark. S. Esther. R. Bales. John Damn. Greorgo Robinson, his X mark. Peter Christie. Charles Grleeson, his X mark. Michael Murphy. William Wallace, his X mark. John Knight. James Fiddes, Edmund Walsh, his X mark. William Gallagher, his X mark. Robert Wood. Michael Kelly. ,, j, Sergeant Private ,, ,, Corporal * An extract from " The Soldier's Acco 20 int Book, 1858," p. 7, is ittached to the Memorial in support of the claim.