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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 577, 12 February 1851, Page 3

The figures rei«r to the Resolutions seriatim. sariouslv.

In our last number we gave a short account of the settlement by the Governor-in-Chief of Mr. Scott’s claim. We now publish the memorial presented to his Excellency by the owners and occupiers of the land, expressing their gratitude for his timely and effectual interference on their behalf, together with his Excellency’s reply. We congratulate the parties interested on having been relieved from further anxiety by the settlement of this question, and that they have received from the Government that justice and protection they have so long sought for—but in vain—from the Company. To His Excellency Sir George Grey, K. C. 8., Governor-in-Chief, &c., &c., &c. Wellington, February Bth, 1851. Sir, —We the undersigned, being owners and occupiers of the principal part of the land and buildings comprised within the Crown Grant to Mr. David Scott, beg most gratefully to offer to your Excellency our thanks and acknowledgments for having terminated this harassing question by a purchase oi Mr. Scott’s right, and thus protected us in our occupations, our property, and our homes. While we have never doubled our right to to protection against the claim of the grantee, we have always felt that our claim to such protection morally, equitably, and legally resteu against the New Zealand Company ; tne laimre of the Company to maintain us in our purchase from them renders your Excellency’s generous interposition doubly grateful to us, when at the eleventh hour we were threatened with ejectment and the penalties of the law. We would further desire to express to your Excellency our deep sense of the kind attention and generous sympathy you have evinced towards us on the several occasions on which we have had to bring the matter before your notice during the whole period of your Excellency’s administration ; convincing us that in this, as generally in other matters, your Excellency’s sole desire has been to promote the happiness and welfare of this Colony and people

We have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency’s most humble, and most grateful servants, G. Moore. K. Samuel for self and Joseph. Charles Grace. James Booth. Peter Christison. G. D. Monteith. John M’Laggan. Wellington, February 10, 1851. Sir, —I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and I am directed by bis Excellency the Governor-in-Chief to convey his thanks for the terms in which it was expressed, and to assure the gentlemen who signed it, that it was with feelings of very great satisfaction that he found himself able to free them from the state of harassing and vexatious anxiety to which they had been so long subjected, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, James Wodehouse, (Acting) Private Secretary. George Moore, Esq., &c.

The following memorial (alluded to in .our last number) was presented to Sir George Grey on Saturday, by the Hutt settlers ; it expresses their fullest confidence in the policy pursued by his Excellency in his administration of the Government, and disavows any participation in the views or opinions put forth by the “persons calling themselves a Constitutional Association,” The memorial was suddenly got up, the settlers in this, the most important and populous country district in the neighbourhood of Wellington being anxious to forward to the Governor before the departure of the Lord William Bentinckan expression of their sentiments. Between 5 o’clock on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon it was signed by 157 persons, forty-nine of whom are landowners. Thirty-four additional signatures have since been attached to the memorial, making in all 191 persons, 60 of whom are landowners. As the whole male population of the ( istrict above 14 years old is about 250, this .memorial may be taken as nearly the unanimous expression of opinion of its inhabitants, who, greatly to their .credjit, have ; resolutqly come forward to uphold their own opinions, and to shew their determination not to submit to the dictation of a Faction :— To His Excellency Sjn George Grey, K.C.8., Governor.-in-. Chief of New Zealand. &c., &c., &c. ' Sir, —We the undersigned, Inhabitants and Settlers in the Hutt Valley, .are desirous of expressing to your Excellency our desire to repudiate any participation in the public meeting held at Wellington, on the subject of the iutute Constitution of New Zealand.

We assure you that we are in the daily enjoyment of that prosperity which has resulted from the judicious policy hitherto pursued by y .ur Excellency since your assumption of the Government, and that we have the fullest confidence that you will continue to consult our best interests in every measure connected with the Government of the Colony.