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A PROCLAMATION. By His ExcKtLKNcr «ik Ueorgk Gtkkv, Kuight, Commander of the Moat Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and ita Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Ac, Ac, Ac. The Governor having been authorised to extend upon certain conditions Her Majesty's clemency to those tribes who have been engaged >n the present unhappy rebellion. Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and proclaim that I will in Her Majesty's name and on Her behalf grant a pardon to all such persons implicated in the rebellion as may come in on or before the Tenth day of December next, take the Oath of Allegiance, and make the cession of such Territory as may in each instance be fixed by the Governor and the Lieu tenant-General Commanding Her Majesty's Forces in New Zealand. All the persons who have been engaged in the rebellion who may desire to return within any parr of the ceded territory, or within the limits of any European settlement, will be required to deliver up any arms or ammunition in their possession. The Pardon promised in this Proclamation, will not be extended to any persons who may have been engaged in the murder of Samuel Shaw Samuel Ford Robert Passmore Parker Pote Dr. Hope, Lieut. Tragett, and Soldiers, 4th May, 18G3. Robert Patterson Michael Meredith Frederick Richard Meredith Sylvester Calvert Charles Cooper William Cory Scott Robert Watson Hugh McLean William John Jackson Margaret Fahey Job Hamlin Richard Trust Nicholas Trust James Dromgoold. Henry Crann Sarten Hugh Corbyu Harris John Ilurford Gafthey, (an Artilleryman) Richard Brown Ephraim Coad William Cutfield King John Hawkcn Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Oolony of New Zealanl, this twenty-fifth day of October in the Tear of our Lord One thousand eigli thundred and sixty-four. By Hie Excellency's command. God Save tue Queen. MEMOKANDA RELATIVE TO RELATIONS EXISTING BETWEEN THE GOVERNOR AND HIS RESPONSIBLE ADVISERS. No. 1. MEMORANDUM for His Excellency the Governor. In their Memorandum of the 2nd of August last, which forms the subject matter of His Excellency's despatch to the Secretary of State of the 20th of August, No. 124, Ministers stated that a passage in Mr. Cardwell'B despatch of the 26th May, No. 65, was capable of an interpretation Bubvei-sive of the arrangements by which responsibility in Native affairs was transferred to the Colonial Government; but as it appeared to His Excellency's Responsible Advisers that the folbwing sentences were intended to qualify that interpretation, and that such a reading would render Mr. Cardwell's despatch harmonious with and not antagonistic to that of the Duke of Newcastle of the 26th of February, 1803, which embodies the arrangements between the Imperial and Colonial Governments as to the conduct of Native affaire.

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