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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 615, 25 June 1851, Page 2

By the recent arrivals we have received the last Blue Book on New Zealand. We have only had time to glance at its contents, and will take an early opportunity of returning to the subject. In hastily turning over its pages our attention was arrested by an elaborate refutation by his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster_pf certain resolutions, of August 27, 1849, “ emanating from an association designating themselves the Settlers’ Constitutional Association,” in which Mr. Eyre is desirous “ that two circumstances should be strongly pointed out” to Lord Grey, namely—“that in this document several inaccuracies exist in the statements put forth as absolute facts, whilst others, substantially true, are so put as to lead to very incorrect inferences,”—in short, that in the opinion of his Excellency, the persons “designating themselves the Settlers, Constitutional Society,” have been guilty either of the suppressio vero, or the suggest™ falso, that they have made either deliberate mis-statements, or misrepresentations. His Excellency then examines and very satisfactorily refutes these resolutions in detail, and in a subsequent despatch is still more severe “on the subject of a letter addressed by a Mr. John Dorset to Lord Grey, on behalf of a Constitutional Society 1 at Wellington.” y