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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 754, 20 January 1870, Page 3

THE GOVERNOR'S SALARY. CIRCULAR. —TO THE PRESS OP NEWZEALAND. The enclosed memorial is submitted to your consideration for approval, and your assistance is solicited, in order to ensure the adoption, of it by every community in the colony. It is requisite that the said memorial be ready for presentation at the commencement of the ensuing session of the New Zealand Parliament. Charles Hulke. "Wanganui, Jan. 1870. To the Honorable the House of Bepresentatives of New Zealand, in Parliament assembled. The memorial of the undersigned inhabitants of the Colony respectfully sheweth, — That, wherea9the Imperial Government has thought fit to withdraw its troops from this Colony, your memorialists are of opinion that the cost of the G-overnor's salary should for the future be defrayed out of the " Imperial," instead of, as at present, out of the " Colonial" exchequer. Your memorialists therefore most respectfully request that your honorable house will re fuse to pass the estimate for the Governor's salary, save for such' period as will afford his Excellency ample time to confer with the Imperial Government on the subject, say for 6* mouths from the commencement of the session. Tour memorialists further request that in the event of the Home authorities declining to sanction the principle indicated above, your honorable house will not allow itself to be intimidated or cajoled into continuiug the payment of the said salary. And your memorialists will ever pray, l&c., &c.