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yourself to the evil* of the sellers by stealth of my lands, and cure these, as a good work, from which I may Bee that you are roofing m a good house, and that there is no deception intended, and then all will Eenata to the Superintendent of Hawko's Bay, February 1861. •' You appear to suppose that by getting hold of a single individual you can gain an advantage over him. Hereafter, whenever the majority consent to a sale, it shall take place. Let us have no more bundenng ; all our troubes have arisen from faulty working, and on this account it was that the door i^is £ u: w^ e systcm °f bu- viug is amendea' th°*- be «-* «•* « <- li And^' bo was th, e caus, e of th[s ? A man goes up to Auckland, and there sells the land • and the first thing the owners hear about it is that the land is gone. Others 'went off to Wellingto and there S." WM mJ °Wn Plat' e> °kaWa' "" g0He ' a"d «everal others the

Appendix, No. 4. Bitatona te Iwa to Eiwai ind others (from the translation of Archdeacon Maunsell, printed in 1SG1.) " To Eiwai, Kiripata Wiremu Tamihana, Apa, Tore, Wiri, Tei, and Hohepa, to ™u Sfgreeting io you. My friends, my fathers, listen! Here we are involved in warfare ; that is to say in Irievous' murderous, cannibal, blood-thirsty calamity. In this very grievous calamity, listen! You are Probiblv nnaomuig that we are going blindly to work. It is not so, but we arc proceeding on a dear course \\ hat makes it clear is this, that as far as regards the reference to the Governor, that has been done' As for murder, we have no intention of murdering; we leave murder to Ihaia and Nikorima Our einefB will act in broad daylight, and indeed they are acting now in broad daylight. As regards the reference to the Governor that has been made by the chiefs. You have already heard that Waitere (Katatore) was failed on the 9th day of the month of January. We had to wait till February for the Governor's answer. The answer came, that the Governor could take no steps in the matter- but let thce bo another murder, then the Governor would consent. Hence our chiefs concluded that the course taken by the Governor was wrong, because this is lhaia's second murder The words of the former Governor are not attended to now ; for steps were taken in the case of the quarrel with Eanei naeata, at the Hutt, on that occasion promptly. In the case of this murder no steps are taken "

End. 3, iv Xo. 1.

Enclosure 3, in No. 1. Memorandum by the Colonial Secretary, on Sir W. Martin's" Observations on Proposal to take Native Lands, <fcc." I have carefully read Sir William Martin's able and elaborate paper. His main aim appears to be to show that a general or even extensive confiscation of the lands of the natives who have cu^a^cd in rebellion, would be beyond the power of the General Assembly, and would be unjust and inexpedient There is much in Sir William's argument from which I am not inclined to dissent and many of his premises may be admitted more or less unreservedly. But I cannot concur in the conclusion at which lie has arrived. The subject is not one which can be regarded by the Government of this Colony as a mere abstract question. We have to deal with a people in actual rebellion, the largest and most powerful tribes being openly committed, and three-fourths of the whole Maori population sympathising to an extent which renders the enforcement of law by the ordinary tribunals exceedingly difficult and as regards large sections of the race, absolutely impossible. ° The magnitude of the emergency is such as to require the active operations of nearly 10 000 British troops, supported by five men of war, and 9,G00 men of the Colonial forces A portion of the Province of Auckland, 40 miles wide, by 20 deep, has for six months past been desolated and rendered uninhabitable by the inroads of the rebels, which have extended to within 15 miles of the capital- a very large amount of property, representing the investment and industry of 20 years has 'been destroyed; unarmed men engaged in peaceful occupations, and women and children,'have been massacred in cold blood; while the whole Northern Island is kept in a condition of insecurity and alarm, destructive of its prosperity, and almost absolutely putting a stop to its colonization The problem to be solved by the Government, is not merely how to put down the existing rebel 1 on ; it is of no less consequence to prevent its recurrence. Experience has proved that mere military defeat has little more than a temporary effect on the Maori, and that as soon as he has had breathing time, he is ready to renew hostilities, by which he loses little or nothing, but gains much plunder and inflicts ruinous loss on his ultimately victorious opponents. There are only two methods by which periodical outbreaks can be prevented ; one, the continued maintenance of a large military and naval force, such as at present is provided by the Imperial and Colonial Governments, and which converts the Colony into a camp ; the other, the introduction and settlement of so large an European population as may render insurrection hopeless in the eyes of the natives, and easily repressive, should they be mad enough to attempt it. To secure this cud, population must be introduced into those districts now

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