TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

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have left that district long ago in pursuance of the instructions conveyed to you in Mr. Cardwell's Despatches on the subject, and I can only acquiesce in their present detention in Waikato on the supposition that it will not have delayed their embarkation. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B. CARNARVON.

No. 20. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon to Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B. (No. 7.) Sir, — Downing Street, Ist February, 1867. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch (separate), of the 6th of November, forwarding copies of letters from the Resident Magistrate of the Upper Wanganui, and from all the principal Chiefs of Taupo. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B. CARNARVON.

No. 21. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon to Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B. (No. 8.) Sir,— Downing Street, Ist February, 1867. I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of the 10th November (separate), forwarding Reports furnishing information regarding the steps taken for the punishment of the Natives engaged in outrages in the disturbed part of the Colony. I am glad to find that you do not anticipate any fresh disturbances of importance. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B. CARNARVON.

No. 22. Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon to Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B. (No. 9.) Sir, — Downing Street, Ist February, 1867. I transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter from the Officer in charge of the Treasury Chest in New Zealand to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, forwarding copy of one he had addressed to the Officer in Command of Her Majesty's Troops in that Colony, relating to the continued expenditure of Imperial funds for Colonial purposes. It is stated by Deputy-Commissary Strickland that such issues from the Treasury Chest on this account were still going on (presumably under your authority or on your request), for which no monthly repayments are made, and that the debt of the Colony to the Imperial Government was daily increasing. As this statement of the continued issues from the Treasury Chest is so directly at variance with the repeated instructions which you have received on the subject, I forward Mr. Strickland's letter to you for any explanations you may have to make upon it. As I have not been apprised by you of any intention to station Her Majesty's Troops in the centre of a purely Native district, I assume that no such intention exists. It is however right to state, or rather to repeat, that you will not be at liberty to require the Imperial regiment left in the Colony to be stationed in Taupo or anywhere else, except in or near one of the great centres of population, nor to direct their removal from those centres except in case of active operations against an enemy, nor even then, unless the Colony undertakes to reimburse the Imperial Government month by month the transport and 5