A.—No, Ib.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1. RETURN of tho NUMBER of VOLUNTEERS (all Ranks) in NEW ZEALAND, 15th May, 1869.
No. 2. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G., to the ' Right Hon. Earl Granville, KG. (No. 70.) Government House, Wellington, My Lobd,— New Zealand, 20th June, 1869. I have the honor to transmit herewith a Report, as published in the Daily Southern Cross, of Auckland, of a recent interview between Mr. Josiah C. Eirth, of that city, accompanied by three English friends, and several of the principal adherents of the so-called Maori King. 2. Mr. Eirth is a highly respectable merchant of Auckland, and has long had extensive dealings with the Natives, both commercially and also as the lessee from them of a large sheep and cattle run in the Waikato. He is the writer of the letter to your Lordship, which I forwarded with my Despatch No. 46, of the 7th April ultimo. 3. The scene so graphically described in the enclosed newspaper report is interesting and characteristic. But I have been requested to point out that no official importance whatever attaches to Mr. Eirth's proceedings, as he undertook his mission entirely without authority from the Colonial Government; while many competent judges are inclined to the belief that the ultimate failure of the proposed Native meeting at Ngaruawahia may be ascribed chiefly to the interference, however well meant, of private individuals. The action taken, in the matter referred to, by the Agents of the Colonial Government has been already described in my Despatch No. 64, of the 3rd June ultimo. 4. It appears that Tamati Ngapora Manuhiri, the uncle and chief councillor of Tawhiao, misrepresented the contents of a letter which was addressed to him on the 6th March ultimo, by Sir William Martin, the late Chief Justice of New Zealand, with whom he (Tamati Ngapora) had formerly lived on terms of personal friendship before the commencement of the so-called "Native King movement." Sir William Martin has published his letter both in the Maori original and in the subjoined translation:—
Fide A. No. 12. 1869.
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DESPATCHES EBOM THE SECRETARY OP STATE
Date of Return. District. Cavalry. Artillery. Engineers. Rifles. Cadets. Naval. Total. Remarks. 1869. Ipril 30 3 1 March 8 Lpril 1 Hay 5 15 1 1 1 8 Auckland Thames Bay of Plenty Poverty Bay Hawke's Bay Wairarapa Wellington Bangitikei Wanganui Taranaki Patea 125 33 22 64 74 60 131 170 49 53 46 80 605 236 58 124 223 331 135 133 35 104 109 120 * 896 316 91 22 188 297 553 266 303 84 104 North Island 728 53 126 1,984 109 120 3,120 Lpril 30 tlay 5 Harch 31 tlay 1 4 1 Marlborough Nelson Westland Canterbury Otago Southland 32 6S 98 236 112 252 417 638 141 65 208 301 418 284 808 854 141 151 60 "44 128 156 Middle Island 100 309 44 1,796 401 156 2,806 Total in New Zealand 170 3,780 510 276 5,926 828 362 T. M. H. .rLT4.nr.
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