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FURTHER PAPERS RELATIVE TO

No 16. COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE TO GOVERNOR GORK BEOWNE, CB. Downing Street, 20th February, 1861. Sir, — With reference to my Despatch, No. 93, of the 16th of December last, informing you that Her Majesty's Government had decided on sending a second Regiment of Infantry from India te New Zealand, I have now to acquaint you that intelligence has been received from India that* the authorities there were making the necessary arrangements for at once despatching the 70th Regi-" nient to that Colony. I have, &c, NEWCASTLE. Governor Gore Browne, C.8., &«., &c, &c.

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