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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 72, 23 July 1873, Page 3

To the Honorable The Members oe the House oe Repbesentatives of New Zealand In Parliament Assembled. THE Humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the Poverty Bay District in the Province of Auckland and Colony of New Zealand, Sheweth : — Ist. That your Petitioners have, on two occasions, suffered grievous actual and incidental losses owing to native outbreaks in this District, from which losses the greater number of your Petitioners are still suffering. 2. That the above-named disturbances were not directly or indirectly caused by any action of your Petitioners. '3. That your Petitioners have rendered every assistance to the Government in the prosecution of the late wars in the District by fighting and otherwise, and have borne an equal share of hard service with the Government natives in assisting to quell the said disturbances. 4. That whereas it has been authoritatively made public by the Government that a block of land is about to be bestowed on two of the East Coast tribes of loyal natives respectively, who were engaged in the service of the Government in assisting to quell the said disturbances ; and that assistance had already been given to certain settlers residing on the West Coast of this Island : Your Petitioners humbly and respectfully submit to your Honorable House that they, your Petitioners, are also justly entitled to some consideration for the losses they have sustained. 5. That your Petitioners humbly pray that your Honorable House will take this matter into serious consideration, and award to your Petitioners such compensation as your Honorable House may deem them justly entitled to. 6. Your Petitioners have taken action in this matter so that their views may be in possession of the House before any final action is taken with respect to the Patutahi Block of land, situated in this District. 7. Your Petitioners would point out that after satisfying the awards to the above-named two tribes of East Coast natives, a sufficient amount of land portion of the said block, will remain in the hands of the Government to compensate your Petitioners for their losses, and reward them for their loyal services. . 8. That a duly verified list forwarded herewith will shew the amount of loss each of your Petitioners has personally suffered by reason aforesaid. 9. That your Petitioners did in the month of January last forward a similar petition to this one, addressed to His Excellency the then Governor and his advisers, but from the tenor of communications received from the Under Secretary, they have reason to believe it was never presented. 10. That in the opinion of your Petitioners their case is entirely exceptional, and that, therefore, your Honorable House should not place their prayer on a parallel footing with that of the settlers of any district, in which disturbances had arisen previous, or subsequent to, the actual outbreak of hostilities here. 11. That therefore your Petitioners humbly pray that your Honorable House will appoint a Committee of Investigation, to enquire into and report on the losses sustained by your Petitioners —so that just compensation should be rendered to them for losses sustained through a course of action which they were utterly powerless to avert on restrain. Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Honorable House will grant their prayer as set forth in the above-written Petition. And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. FOR SALE. Q firk/Y GOOD POURIRI POSTS, for rails or wire. POURIRI STRAINERS, POURIRI HOUSE BLOCKS, KAHIKATEA RALLS, SHINGLES. J. B. POYNTER, Toanga.