To The Editor For New Zealand Spectator. October 23rd. 1848.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 337, 25 October 1848, Page 3

To The Editor For New Zealand Spectator. October 23rd. 1848.

Sir-,^-By ; die desire of the Patients uHdet' ray ~chsrg& I have the honour to forward to you the accompanying address, to Jftis fe'^qellency the Lu> Governor and the tfeply thertto wijtfr the reqijestjthab you will give insertion to both in th'e'tfextnutober of your paper. \,l have' the honour to be, Sir, Yoiir obedieni aer'va'rit, . •.£-"<- . • J. FITZGEItALT). M'iD.

ra.Vf •■Ootrerntnent House, October 18, 1848., L'sTay it pleae^yoor- jfexceH©ricy,-rr'Wej,!tlie i undersigned "Patients '1316}/ inmates itt tße^

■fioloTto£l''Htopttal WhlcfiH^ been "suddenly rehdered uninhabltS!)le c by the severe shock of an earifo'quake, wViie'we feelih the first itoce deeply 1 flflitiKfoltb Almighty' God for* tlie^providentiatpres^rvatidn cfourliv'es, are likewise anxious to express to your 'Excellency our sincere feelings of gratitude for. your Excellency's paternal 'kindhes's in criming to bur 'assistance irt pur distress, and affording us shelter and accommodation in Government House. But What greatly increases bur obligation, and especially Calls for an 'expression of our gratitude and thankfulness, is jhe promptness with which your Excellency's kindness Was shown, fdr no sooner were we in distress, than your Excellency appaTently forgetting the general calamity, and r unniindful "of the panic which pervaded the settlement se'eWed 'to have y oil r ''thoughts occupied in providing for .our case alone, so tapidly was 'e'veryarrangement, not only for bW^afety, but fot 'our convenience and Comfort} "made." TntotieTusiob.wewJsh to sajy?t'h'4t%e should de"em it £in a'dditiona], favour" bestowed upon ris, i? yoiir'Excellenty woulil be pleaseH to rhe"se oar 'heartfelt expressions of gratitude. — (Signed) Charles "Hobbs, Thomas%itK^erald;f 6l<n Atkinson,; Thomas William Weflraa, Griffiths Lowe, Ngakuaha, Thomas Northwbod, William Jones, James THrN'eaVThohla* : Doab Ile;Hichard1 le;Hichard Toralin, Mary Wyburn, Mary Ann Peck, Hone Abrete Ihake, Match!, '"

To the Patients ' lately inmates in the Colonial Hospital M[y Friends, — I have, received with much pleasure yourletter of the 18th instant, expressing your gratitude to the Almighty for having been preserved in, safety, during the late afflicting calamity and your thankfulness for the arrangements for your shelter and accommodation. ( You have indeed /much caufejtjo.acknowledge the goodness and jnercy^pf (Jod in saving, yoa by a timely warning; frpm.jbeiDg involved .in the, o destruction of the building formerly occupied by you. t- .>.. , , Jt is righf, also, that, you shqqld, feel thank~ fjil,, that amidst the overthrow of so many buildings, there should yet be left any stand - | ing sufficient, for your accommodation, and ;I ; trust that the mercies you have these respects experienced may make a deep impres- , sion upon your hearts, and that, the recollec1 tiojn of them may exercise a beneficial influx ence upon your future lives, should : it please the Almighty, ,10 -spare, you and. again restore you, to he.althfjmd strength. iFor your kind expressions of good feeling towards myself, I sincerely thank ,yqu,. but whilst I sympathize deeply with you, and wjith all, who, have suffered by the late dispensation of Providence^ ;I ; I cannot claim the merit, you i ascribe to me, since, in making the best arrangements which I. could for you, J did no, more than it was rqyboundefl duty to da. (Signed) 1 . . , , E. Ey*b. Gewrnmem 'Hdn'sej Weliihgton,' - October 20, ,1 84&