D.—No. 9

CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO AN OUTRAGE COMMITTED BY A MAORI AT MATAURE, BAY OF ISLANDS.

[Retwm to an Order of the House of Representatives, dated \%th November, 1863,]

" That there be laid upon the Table of this House copies of Correspondence between the Government and the Civil Commissioner at the Waimate (Bay of Islands), and others, relative to an outrage comniittsd by a Maori on the daughter of a Settler at Mataure, near the Bay of Islands."

(Mr. Butler.) AUCKLAND. 1863