A.—No. 1.

3. These murders are (if the latter has been committed, which I do not doubt) of the most shocking and treacherous character. It is greatly to be regretted, as you will find from the enclosed copy of my letter to Major-General Chute, that the action of the military authorities has been so tardy; but as you will have seen from previous correspondence, I am quite ignorant of the nature of the instructions under which Brigadier-General Waddy has been acting. Major-General Chute will, I have no doubt, prevent such difficulties from arising for the future. I have, &c, The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P. G. GREY.

A. No. 4a, Sess. papers, 1865.

No. 6. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., to the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P. (No. 136.) Government House, Wellington, Sir,— 10th November, 1865. I have the honor to transmit for your information a copy of a Memorandum I have received from my Responsible Advisers enclosing a Resolution, adopted by the House of Representatives in New Zealand, in relation to the opinions I had formed of the inexpediency of allowing the removal of the troops from the Colony in the month of May last until the Weraroa pa had fallen. I have, &c, The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P. G. GREY.

Mr. Stafford, 28th October, 1865.

Enclosure in No. 6. Copy of a Memobandum by Mr. Stafford. Ministers transmit to His Excellency the copy of a Eesolution adopted by the House of Eepresentatives this day, expressing its thorough approval of the action taken by His Excellency with reference to the removal of a portion of the regular troops in May last. Wellington, 28th October, 1865. E. W. Staffoed. Sub-Enclosure to Enclosure in No. 6. Extract from the Journals of the House of Eepeesentatites, Saturday, the 28th day of October, 1865. Resolved, —" That this House, without reference to the general policy of retaining the Imperial troops in the Colony, and without admitting any pecuniary liability to the mother country on that account, desires to record its opinion that under the circumstances stated by His Excellency, in the frinted papers laid before the House, and especially having reference to the long inaction of the mperial troops in the immediate neighbourhood of the Weraroa pa, prior to its capture, His Excellency exercised a sound discretion in the course he adopted in protesting against the proposed removal of a certain number of the troops in the month of May last, on the occasion when they were proposed to be removed by the General." (True Extract.) F. E. Campbell, Clerk House of Eepresentatives.

Leg. C. Journals, 1865, p. 124. Mr. Stafford, 26th October, 1865. H. E. the Governor, Oct. 26,1865. Mr. Stafford, 27th Qctobor, 1865.

No. 7. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir George Grey, X.C.8., to the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P. (No. 140.) Government House, Wellington, Sir,— 10th November, 1865. I have the honor herewith to transmit for your information a copy of an Address which I have received from the Legislative Council of New Zealand, enclosing resolutions adopted by the Council, to the effect that it is unnecessary that the Imperial troops should be retained in this Colony. 2. I have at the same time the honor to transmit a copy of a Memorandum I have received from my Responsible Advisers in relation to the same subject. I have, &c, The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P. G. GREY.

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