New Munster Gazette – 1848 – No. 22

Page 114

✨ Correspondence and Land Agreement

retarded, and by which its interests cannot
fail to be materially promoted in various
particulars of the most vital importance.

Having no doubt that the Government of
this Province will coincide in this view, I
have the honor to request that the letter
referred to may be inserted in the next Government Gazette.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

WILLIAM FOX,

Acting Principal Agent of the
New Zealand Company.

To the Honble. the Colonial Secretary
of New Munster.

Wellington, 16th Sept., 1848.

SIR,

The arrangements for amicably adjusting the questions, which have been for some time pending between the New Zealand Company and its Land Purchasers resident in the first and principal settlement, being now happily concluded, we deem it right to express our entire and unanimous satisfaction with them.

Cordially reciprocating as we do the wish of the Company to exist in harmony with all its settlers, and recognising in this final arrangement the fulfilment of its pledge to deal with its purchasers in a spirit of justice and liberality, we beg to assure you of the sincere pleasure with which we shall see all past differences forgotten, and renew on our part those feelings of mutual confidence and good will that formerly united us with the Company.

Looking as we also do with anxious hope to the large efforts it is now engaged in, for founding other settlements around us, We, the first pioneers of British colonisation in New Zealand, desire you to convey to the Directors the promise of our hearty support and co-operation in carrying out the work which we commenced under their auspices.

We would further beg you personally to accept our united thanks for the amicable spirit in which you entered upon the recent negotiations—for the candid and straightforward manner in which you acted throughout them, and for the earnest desire you manifested to bring them to their present satisfactory conclusion.

We have the honor to remain,

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