RESPONSIBILITY IN NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 203, 2 December 1864, Page 1 (Supplement)

RESPONSIBILITY IN NATIVE AFFAIRS.

In the House of Representatives on Wednesday the 30th November, Mr. Weld moved the following resolutions, the debate on which was adjourned:—

That the joint responsibility of Governor and Ministers in the management of native affairs has resulted in divided counsels, and in a vacillating policy, which has been productive of great evil to both races of her Majesty’s subjects in this colony, while it has entailed heavy and unnecessary expenditure both upon Great Britian and on New Zealand. "

That tins House, recognizing the right of the Home Government to insist upon the maintenance of this system of double Government so long as the colony is receiving the aid of British troops for the suppression of internal disturbances, accepts the alternative, and requests the Home Government to withdraw the whole of its land force from the colony, and to issue such instructions to his Excellency the Governor as may enable him to be guided entirely by the recommendations of his constitutional advisers in native as well as in ordinary affairs, excepting upon such matters as may directly concern Imperial interests and the prerogatives of the Crown.

That the House takes this occasion of expressing its loyalty and devotion to the Crown, its deep gratitude for the generous assistance rendered by the mother country to this colony, and its cordial appreciation of the gallant services performed by her Majesty’s laud and naval forces in Hew Zealand.

That these resolutions be embodied in an humble address to his Excellency the Governor, requesting him to transmit them to her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.