PAPERS RELATIVE TO MILITARY OPERATIONS

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very much more of it. I shall send off to you immediately I have any definite information to give as to my future movements. lam very sorry that Major Eoberts has not come through. Had he done so, he would have had very easy work at Euatahuna, there being only old men and women left there, as all the fighting men they could muster are here, except those who have bolted with Te Waru, and we had got them driven up in such a corner, that with his force in the rear and ours in front, a few hours would have settled the, business satisfactorily. As the messenger who brought your despatch is now starting, and I know you are anxious toreceive this, I shall conclude for the present. Trusting that what I have done will meet with the approval of the Government, and that, with regard to future operations, they will be pleased to allow me to exercise my discretion to the best of my abilities, I have, Ac, His Honor J. D. Ormond, F. E. Hamlin. Agent for the General Government, Napier.

Enclosure 4 in No. 104. His Honor J. D. Ormond to Mr. F. E. Hamlin. Sir,— Napier, 18th June, 1870. I am this morning in receipt of your report of the 16th instant, dated from Matuahu pa, and note the negociations you are engaged in with the Urewera. You would, shortly after the despatch of' your letter of the 16th instant, have received my letters of the 15th, conveying to you definitely the wishes of the Government in respect to the surrender of the Hauhaus, and the prosecution of operations. I am glad to see from your report that your action had been entirely in the direction the Government desire, and hope the negociations then proceeding have eventuated in the enemy's surrender. The proposal of the Urewera that you should withdraw from the Lake district, and allow them to follow you to the Wairoa, cannot be entertained, and in my opinion carries on the face of it an intention to deceive. The Government are desirous of dealing leniently with these people, and intend to do so, but a sine qua, non of their submission is that they surrender unconditionally, and that they be removed from their mountainous country to the coast, where they can be kept under proper surveillanceIt will be well for you to warn them that the opportunity now offered them may not be again open to them, and that contumacy on their part will lead to their speedy destruction. The best plan for them is to send for their women and children, and accompany you to Wairoa, where they will bo informed as to their future location. In all probability I shall come to the Wairoa myself, in the event of their surrender, and arrange matters with them. You can tell them they will meet with the same treatment on this side as those who have surrendered to the Arawa. There is nothing further to add to the instructions convoyed in my letters of the 15th, wdiich were definite, and will fully have advised you as to the wishes and intentions of the Government. I trust the negociations which were going on at the time your letter left will have resulted in the acceptance by the enemy of the terms offered, and in such case you will use your influence to get their women and children sent for, aud the whole removed as speedily as possible to Wairoa. I shall be glad if you will make enquiry from the Urewera as to the number of men who accompanied Te Waru to Alaungapowhatu, and also who they were. This information would be of considerable value; also, any reliable information as to Te Kooti's whereabouts and his force. The report of his being at Te Eeinga is one of those rumors that get about and is at variance with all the other information we have upon the subject. I shall hope to hear soon from you the result of the meeting with the Hauhau chiefs, which was going on when you last wrote. I have, &c., F. E. Hamlin, Esq., J. D. Ormond. Wairoa Expedition, Matuahu Pa, Waikaremoana.

Enclosure 5 in No. 104. Mr. F. E. Hamlin to His Honor Mr. J. D. Ormond. Sir, — Matuahu Pa, Waikaremoana, June 18th, 1870. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches dated 15th instant conve3 ring to me the wishes of the Government in case of a surrender or otherwise by the Ureweras, and shall do my best to carry out the same. In my last despatch to you, dated 16th instant, I informed you that four of the Hauhau chiefs— Makarini, Paraki, Hori, Te Wao, and one woman —-were then at this place having a great korero with the Chiefs of my party. After a good deal of speechifying, the principal spokesman of the Hauhaus, Alakarini, agreed, as far as he and his people only were concerned, to give themselves up, but could not do so for the other tribes, and promised to go to Buatahuna and try to induce Paerau to surrender. We gave them some flour, &c, with which they seemed much gratified, and was the means of casting off a deal of suspicion, with which I need hardly say they not only were but still are full of. Makarini told us that Te Waru and his people had gone to Maungapowhatu with the intention of searching out Te Kooti and joining him. On the whole, I feel gratified that the present instructions all through are the full sentiments of my own mind.