THE TROOPS IN NEW ZEALAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 512, 26 September 1867, Page 2

THE TROOPS IN NEW ZEALAND.

(From the Home News, July 20.) House op Loeds, July 8. The Earl of Carnarvon said that on July 5 the noble lord opposite (Lord Lyttelton) had a motion on the paper with respect to the employment of troops in New Zealand, and the noble duke at the bead of the Colonial office requested the noble lord to postpone his motion, on the ground that the discussion of the subject would be inconvenient to the public service. If by that statement it was meant that the policy he (the Earl of Carnarvon) had adopted upon the subject should be reconsidered, that was, in Ins opinion, a reason why the question should be discussed, aud he begged ito ask the noble duke what was the intention of her Majesty’s Government. The Duke of Buckingham said he had deprecated discussion upon the question referred to for two reasons ; first, because there were no additional papers to be produced, and next, that as the subject was still under the consideration of the Colonial legislature, it was not desirable that their lordships should pronounce any opinion with respect to it. If, however, it were deemed desirable that the question should be discue*ed, he thought it would bs convenient that the discussion should be raised by a substantive motion. Lord Lyttelton said lie thought that the arrangement proposed by the noble earl (of Carnarvon) waspla'nand explicit, and Ills object was to ascertain whether the Government had proposed to depart from that policy.

Tbe Earl of Carnarvon observed that he was not quite satisfied with the explanation of the nobleduke, and he begged to give notice that he would bring the subject under the cosi ieration of their lordships at the earliest possible moment. Jolt 15.

The Earl of Carnarvon, in moving for an address for a return of the regiments in Kew Zealand, since January, 18b5, and the date of their embarkation, entered upon a vindication of a despatch written by him while holding the office of Colonial Secretary, which he considered had been misapprehended. He remarked that after the whole power of prescribing the policy with regard to the natives had been conceded to the New Zealand Government, the Duke of Newcastle, as Coloaial Secretary, had directed the return to England of ail the British troops, with one exception, subject to arrangement. Those orders had not been carried out, except with very great delays, which Lord Carnarvon imputed to the Governor, Sir Q. Grey, acting under the influence of his local advisers, when he assumed ollice he had found the directions of his predecessors still unfulfilled, ahd he wrote a despatch insisting upon the orders being carried out, believing that the military officer had been overruled by the Governor, but in that despatch he expressed himself in reference to some reported circumstances in a manner which had been somewhat misunderstood. He, however, now desired to ascertain what were the present intentions of the Government in respect of the troops in Hew Zealand. Address agreed to.