TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

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ment, I conveyed the most distinct disavowal of any wish to abandon New Zealand, or to bring about its separation from this country. If any such impression prevails among the disaffected Maoris, or their advisers, it is absolutely without foundation. You will also have received my Despatch No. 53, of 20th ultimo, in which I informed you of the acceptance of a proposal made by the New Zealand Commissioners for the guarantee of a loan of £1,000,000, to be expended on roads and immigration. The publication of a Barliamentary Baper, of Bth April, will have informed your Ministers that Her Majesty's Government, while giving orders for the withdrawal of the troops, had instructed the officers of the navy to show themselves as much as possible on the coasts of New Zealand, and in certain emergencies to assist in protecting the lives and properties of the settlers. I am very unwilling to reopen the matters of controversy which are treated in Mr. Eox's Memorandum, and I hope that the above evidences of the continued interest felt by Her Majesty's GoA rernment in the Colony will be held to relieve me from the necessity of doing so. You will probably think it right to make this Despatch public. I have, &c, Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G. GRANVILLE.