[From the New Zealand Journal.] PROCEEDINGS OF GOVERNOR GREY AT WELLINGTON, AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE NATIVES.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 160, 10 February 1847, Page 2

[From the New Zealand Journal.] PROCEEDINGS OF GOVERNOR GREY AT WELLINGTON, AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE NATIVES.

No. 11. Despatch from Lieutenant-Governor Grey to Lord Stanley. Port Nicholson, 14th February, 1846. My Lord, — I have the honour to state that Taringa-kure, one of the principal chiefs of those natives who have intruded into the valley of the Hutt, has just been with me, as a kind of deputation from the other -chiefs in that district^ and that, upon my requiring him to name a specific day upon which the valley shall be evacuated by the natives, he has assured me that all those ever whom he has any influence shall quit the land belonging to Europeans upon Tuesday or Wednesday next. After making this promise, he wisred to enter into a discussion regarding the kind and amount of payment which should be made to them for the crops, houses, &c, which they must leave upon the 'land. I, however, thought it proper to observe, that as they had <originally occupied, and subsequently retained possession of, the land, in defiance of the repeated warnings of the Government, and without any regard to the rights of the proprietors of the land, they were not justly entitled to any consideration, and that I should not hold any communication with them upon these subjects, or upon any other subjects, until they had shown th Jr respect for the Government by quitting this land, and returning to their own homes ; but that, after this had been done, and the Europeans had entered into peaceable .possession of their property, I would receive any deputation of the chiefs, and hear any representations which they might make to me. I thought it proper to make this statement ; because, although I thought that, referring to the latge amount of >orops they must leave behind them, <and to their naturally loose notions of the rights of Europeans to landed property in this countty, it might be a proper act of generosity on behalf of the Crown, upon iheir yielding a ready and implicit obedience to the laws, to make an allowance for the crops in the ground which they were obliged to abandon (amounting, I am told, to nearly 300 acres of potatoes), I nevertheless felt, that if I offered any compensation whilst they remained in possession of the land, my motives might be misunderstood ; and that they, conceiving my object was to purchase their consent, might endeavour to drive a bargain with me, and delay their removal until further difficulties arose, which knight resultin serious disturbances. lam happy to be able to add, that this determination upon my part appeared to produce a very good effect upon the old chief, as I have no doubt it will upon his followers. — I have, &c, (Signed) G. Grey. ;