prayers for your increasing happiness, and that of Lady Grey, will ever follow you.

We remain,

Your Excellency's very obedient, humble Servants,

(Signed) S. IRONSIDE, Minister.
R. GABEEL.
W. MOORE.
A. JACKSON.
R. BURN.
J. RILEY.
A. M'EACHEN.
G. W. LIGHTBAND.
H. JACKSON.
R. P. OUTRIDGE.

Office-Bearers.

To His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand and its dependencies, &c., &c., &c.

Nelson, 14th February, 1851.

GENTLEMEN,—I thank you most sincerely for the manner in which you have expressed the gratification with which you have witnessed the exertions I have made to promote, in as far as lay in my power, the welfare of both races of Her Majesty's subjects in New Zealand; as also for your warm appreciation of the success which has attended those exertions.

I trust that I may always feel duly grateful to that Divine Providence which has seen fit to permit me to assist as an instrument in the great work of the colonisation of New Zealand, and of the conversion and civilization of the Native Race. In common with yourselves, I feel that it was a great thing to have been chosen for such a work, and that we cannot be sufficiently thankful for the prosperity and tranquillity with which this country is now blessed.

But I have been myself only one of many persons who have been engaged in this great task—and many men and classes of men have rendered me assistance so friendly, so efficient, and so useful, that I shall always feel grateful to them for it.

I need hardly tell you, that amongst those persons who have rendered me such great assistance in the carrying out of plans which, without their co-operation must have fallen to the ground, are many Ministers and Members of your Society, in labour especially with whom has been for some years past a source of the highest gratification to me. Wherever, then, I may hereafter go, or whatever may be my future duties, I shall always retain a lively remembrance of the encouragement and aid which your Society has afforded me in my past difficult career here; and you may rest assured that Lady Grey and myself will long remember the kind wishes which you have expressed for our future welfare and happiness; and that to hear of your continued prosperity and well doing will always be a source of the greatest pleasure to us.

(Signed) G. GREY.

To the Minister and Office-Bearers of the Wesleyan Church and Congregation, Nelson.

May it please your Excellency to receive from us, the Officers and Brothers of the Nelson District of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, the following Address of Congratulation upon your revisiting this Settlement:—

We beg to assure your Excellency, that we have ever retained a grateful and lively sense of your kindness to our Order, since we last had the honour and pleasure of addressing you upon your first landing here, after your appointment as Governor of the Colony of New Zealand.

We most sincerely congratulate your Excellency upon the stability of the arrangements made by you for the settlement of the Native claims, and that the measures adopted by your Excellency, to restore peace and confidence in this colony, have been crowned with success; and from the past experience of the energy and wisdom of your Excellency's measures, we feel entire confidence (now that the whole control of the titles and land claims of this settlement rest under your sole guidance) that the unfortunate uncertainty under which this settlement has so long laboured, from the want of legal titles to the lands purchased, will be satisfactorily arranged, and that this settlement may with certainty feel that every claim, for the future, will be decided upon firm and equitable grounds, and that we may look forward (under the wisdom of your Excellency's Government) to increased and lasting prosperity.

We trust that our Order has been so conducted in this place, that we still retain your approval; and we humbly hope that your Excellency will ever continue to give us your confidence and support.

Wishing your Excellency a long life of public esteem and private happiness, and that the emblems of our Order—Faith, Hope, and Charity—may ever be found in your path, we beg, most respectfully, gratefully, and loyally, to subscribe ourselves your most humble servants, on behalf of this district,

CHARLES HENRY COX, Prov. G.M.
RICHARD SUCKLIFE, Prov. D.G.M.
P. Prov. G.M.
THOMAS SULLIVAN, Prov. C.S.

To His Excellency Sir George Grey, Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand.