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Enclosure 3 in No. 6. Address from the Settlers at Ngaruawahia. To His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight, Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor of New Zealand, &c, &c, &c. Mat it please Tour Excellency,— The inhabitants of Ngaruawahia and surrounding districts are desirous of respectfully bidding you farewell previous to your departure to assume the Governorship of a sister Colony. When your Excellency arrived in New Zealand it was in a state of civil turmoil; but by the wisdom of your Excellency, assisted by your Eesponsible Advisers, the country is once more in a state of peace and quietness. Tour Excellency's name will always be associated in history with the termination of what we sincerely trust, and have every reason to believe, will have been the last struggle between the Aboriginals and the Colonists. We wish that your Excellency aud Lady Bowen may long continue to enjoy health and happiness, and to secure the affections and respect of the people over whom you are called to preside, as you have so long enjoyed those of the residents of the Colony which you are leaving. We again wish your Excellency farewell. Ngaruawahia, March" 12, 1873. His Excellency the Governor's Eeply. Gentlemen, — I thank you heartily for this address, and for all the courtesy and kindness which you have shown me during my former visits to the Waikato. My first official tour, after my arrival in New Zealand five years ago, was to this district; and now I have made my last official tour hither previous to my final departure. I congratulate you on the vastly improved state of your affairs since I first came among you ; an improvement which is in no slight degree owing to the energy and prudence of the settlers in the Waikato, and to the friendly relations which they maintained with their neighbours. I yield to no permanent colonist in affection for this country, in which I have spent the five happiest years of my life. And now, gentlemen, I reciprocate your good wishes, and bid you a cordial farewell. Ngaruawahia, March 12,1873. G. F. Bowen.

No. 7. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G. to the Eight Hon. the Earl of Kimberley. (No. 24.) Government House, Auckland, My Lord, — New Zealand, 17th March, 1873. In continuation of my Despatch No. 22, I have the honor to report that I returned to Auckland on the day following that on which the farewell Native meeting was held at Ngaruawahia. 2. I now transmit a Memorandum from Mr. McLean, showing the present satisfactory condition of Native affairs. 3. It is the earnest desire of the Colonial Government that I should inaugurate, before finally leaving the waters of New Zealand, the monument erected at the public expense over the grave of Tamati Waka Nene. Accordingly, it has been arranged that the steamer " Hero" which is to convey me from Auckland to Australia shall stop for a few hours on the voyage at the Bay of Islands, where this celebrated chief died and was buried in August, 1871, as was reported in my Despatch No. 72 of that year.* 4. It will be remembered that Tamati Waka Nene was the principal chief and most famous warrior of the great clan of the Ngapuhis, the most powerful in New Zealand; and that it was mainly through his authority and influence that the sovereignty of New Zealand was ceded to the British Crown by the Treaty of Waitangi. Alike in peace and in war, he was ever a loyal subject of the Queen, and a constant friend and brave ally of the English. It is generally believed that without his aid and support the British Government could not have been established in this country in 1840, nor maintained during the Maori war of 1845-48. I shall be glad to preside at the proposed inauguration of his monument, as my last public act in New Zealand. 5. I would take this opportunity of transmitting copies of some of the farewell letters which I have received from the Maori chiefs in every part of New Zealand. They all breathe the same spirit of loyalty to the Queen and of goodwill to myself. 6. At Auckland, as in the other principal towns of the Colony, Lady Bowen and I have been entertained at public balls in view of our approaching departure, * See also my Despatches No. 37 of 1868, and No. 51 of 1870,