APPENDIX TO E.—No. 2.

CONFISCATION OF NATIVE LANDS.

E.—No. 2

DESPATCHES FROM THE GOVERNOR.

(Presented to the Imperial Parliament 20th Mai/, 18G4.J

No. 1. (No. 9.) COPT OF A DESPATCH FKOM GOTEnNOE SIR GEOBGE OBEY, X.C.8., TO HIS GEACE THE DUKE OP NEWCASTLE, K.G. TUV T^» n Tirrr- Government House, Auckland, 6th January, 1804. Mr Lokd Duke — (Keceived 14th March, 1864.) __ . , «:• w 6,!• h™miT. l° 1 trallBlnit t0 J°ur Grace tl]e documents named in the margin, relative to a b?tl c fovorl Tf ,[ "^ Llte Ch -6f 6°f NeW Zealaud ' 0b Jectin* t0 some of the &» Prosed 7 9 t£ r- i U termination of the troubles now existing in this Colony M^rHi,' ,! "t f r? ta7 Ii aSappf' KW a memorandum, expressing his views upon Sir William Marten B paper; I wish also to bring the following remarks under your Grace's consideration • not to''kv v IT' ft !f- VS; P arn- 1G 1 "If th?*f> me »' aftei- Bi^g the best proof of their intentions Aol 1 11 1 \f f f the Queen, yet seeing the.r territory entered by an armed force, and property JSC r" C>' St°? d. Up T^ °Ught W° not in fairness t0 Ollcklde «•-* ««* resistei, no^ because they were traitors, but rather because they were New Zealanders, or because they were mm?" ». I believe that this passage refers to the majority of the Waikato chiefs, who at native runaneas : held to consider the question, refused, before the commencement of the existing troubles to 7on the Other natives in their proposed attack upon the European settlements ' J OB^ssinSed rtN™v? T^'^tt '"^T "^ n r ine. soldiers had jM then been most shockingly assassinated at New Plymouth, by the order of some of the Upper Waikato chiefs. I believe that the so-called Maori King knew that these orders had been issued, and either would'not or most probably was powerless to mterfere. He, howerer, never gave me any 'warning that such an nSSon eSei 7> Tmv-^WVI a/ tei; thesc mu^™, plots were formed by the same people, and their adherents in the levo S ,1S" '^ $Tt lUU n settlement ,of Auckl™d- The natives who formed these plots were all well armed and had long been preparing themselves for such enterprises They had drilled their men, dressed them in uniforms, appointed them to different ranks ? ' to h/^WI f°bbex Pecc + exP ect l ed that a civilized people, who knew that the question of whether they were to be attacked or not was discussed in runangas or councils (which anyone could enter and then vote) Bho'dd dda/for'S-t 1 ft nT tiV6 -V Small "« Whidl WV mi Sht become a S3& buouw delay tm a day to take the requisite measures lor the protection of their families and properties • e"™3? ?SI Pf ?1 W° f *i! GOTeT!f n* which/having the then recent and Rentable example at Neu Plymouth before its eyes, had hesitated to provide for the safety of the Queen's subjects ? Lnder such circumstances, must it not be held that Her Majesty's forces may be moved into any part of her possessions for the protection of the quiet and peaceable against the armed and turbulent who arc plotting their destruction; and that the mere fact of their having marched across a certain stream to attain this object cannot be regarded as an act which justifies the turbulent in entering an iSuropean settlement, and m murdering inoffensive and unarmed settlers, or in attacking Her Majesty's 7. I say this, not r,s an answer to Sir WillhuM Martin's views, which would probably aoree with my own on this point, but because I fear that his remarks might, as they stand, be misunderstood by persons i cS'i !? fy^lf^' *o. 177, of the sth of December last, I enclosed a native statement, which showed that when Genera Cameron, early in July last, moved to provide for the protection of the settlement oi Auckland, the native attacking forces were already in motion, and that when he crossed the Mangatawhn-i, their leading parties had already passed up the Maramarua to occupy Paparata or some other point on the hue which they intended to take up. " J 9. I now enclose for your Grace's information the copy of another native statement, from a totally E independent source, which shows that the Waikato natives did their utmost, at the period of time to to which I allude, to induce William Thompson to join them with his tribe in a simultaneous attack upon 6 the European population. ■ x I have, &c, G. Gbet.

No. 1. Governor Sir Geo. Grey, X.C.8., to the Duke of Newcastle, K.G., G January 1864. £nlosure E " & F°* to n Sir° %?\2L DecemEnoW.2 Sir William Mar tin > to Mr- *<*. 16 Nov" 1863--™EnclosT a, feS^r^ Marti^ I c '

R-uhi'sStatem^f to Dr Ihortb.T.S 6 J<"™ry 18C4.