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DESPATCHES PROM THE B-TOFT HON. E. Ci* TO)WELL M.P.,

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I have now to request that you will furnish ma with your opinion, what reductions can be made in the military force now maintained in the Colony. I entertain a confident hopq and expectation that before you rooeive this Despatch your measures of pacification will have made such progress that the reduction you are able to recommend will be very considerable. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Edward Cardwell. &c„ &c, Ac.

No. 4 No. 107 ) Downing Street, October 23, 1864. Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 115 of the 3rd August, forwarding, for my information, copy ofa Memorandum which your Ministers were desirous should be transmitted to me respecting the treatment of tho Native prisoners on board ihe hulk Marion, I haw, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Edward Cardwell. &c, &c, &c.

No. 5. (No. 108.) Downing Street, October 24, 1564. SIX, I have to acknowledge the receipt of.your Despatch No. 116, of tlie 3rd of August, forwarding copy of a Memorandum by your Responsible Advisers in reference to your Despatch to my Predecessor of the Bth of June last (Separate), on the subject of a notice which they had issued to the Natives, without your knowledge aud consent, and 1 have to refer you on this question to the remarks contained in my Despatch No. !>B, of tho 26th ultimo. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Edward Cardwkll. &c, &c, &c.

No. G. (No. 109.) ..-..:.. Downing Street, October 25, 1864. Sir,— I have received your Despatches Nos. 107 and 117, of the 29th of July and 6th of August, informing me that 133 Natives, including several Chiefs of mok, had surrendered their arms to Colonel Greer, at Tauranga, and tendered their submission to the Queen, and enclosing a copy of the terms which you grained to these Natives, after accepting their submission at a personal interview. 1 have received this intelligence with the most lively salisfuction. I cordially approve of your proceedings, and have pleasure in believing with you, that the leniency which you have shown in dealing with these Natives will be found in the result to be not less politic in regard to the interests of the settleis than it is gratifying to your own feelings. I am glad that you expressed so pointedly to tho Natives of Tauranga your sense of the honorable manner in which the hostilities against us have been conducted on their part. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Edward Cardwell. &0., &c, &c.

i\'o. 7. (No. no.) Downing Street, October 25, 1864. Sir.— 1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. ICB, of the 29ih of July, transmuting a nominal list of ihe Native prisoners c infilled on board the hulk " Marion." I have, &c., Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Edward Cardwell. &c, &c, &o.