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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

VOL. III.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1843. [No. 28.

PROCLAMATION.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 12th July, 1843.

By His Excellency WILLOUGHBY
SHORTLAND, Esquire, the Officer
administering the Government of the
Colony of New Zealand and its De-
pendencies, and Vice Admiral of the
same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, it is essential to the well-
being of this Colony, that confidence
and good feeling should continue to exist be-
tween the two races of its Inhabitants, and that
the Native owners of the soil should have no
reason to doubt the good faith of Her Majesty's
solemn assurance that their territorial rights
would be recognized and respected. Now, there-
fore, I, the Officer administering the Govern-
ment, do hereby publicly warn all persons
claiming land in this Colony, in all cases where
the claim is denied or disputed by the original
Native owners, from exercising acts of owner-
ship thereon, or otherwise prejudicing the
question of title to the same, until the question
of ownership shall have been heard and de-
termined by one of Her Majesty's Commissioners
appointed to investigate Claims to Land in New
Zealand.

Given under my Hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Government House,
Auckland, this twelfth day of
July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred
and forty-three.
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,
THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT.
By His Excellency's Command,
(For the Colonial Secretary),
WILLIAM CONNELL.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
direct that the subjoined translation of the
Native Government Gazette Extraordinary, un-
der this date, be published for general informa-
tion.

By His Excellency's Command,
(For the Colonial Secretary,)
WILLIAM CONNELL.

"The brig Victoria has arrived from Port
Nicholson-the horizon is dark, the day exceed-
ingly dark. News from above has reached
stating that a conflict has taken place between
the natives and Europeans-some have fallen on
both sides-with us both parties are wrong,
according to the laws both of God and man.
The particulars of the conflict, in which both
Europeans and natives have fallen, we are not
in full possession of, but we are seeking infor-
mation as to the origin of the affair-for this
purpose the Governor has sent some officers to
the natives in order that he may hear what they
have to say, and thereby be fully acquainted
with the circumstance. Let us wait to hear the
correctness and truth of this matter; until
which do not let us prejudge. To us they ap-
pear both wrong-blood has been spilt on both
sides. It is cause of great regret that the blood
of our fellow-creatures should be shed.
"The Natives and the Europeans both agree
that the origin of this quarrel, (in which twenty
lives have been lost,) was about land. Is land
more valuable than the life of man? The Euro-
peans of Port Nicholson say that Rauparaha
and Rangihaeta proposed that Mr. Spain and
Mr. Clarke should settle the case concerning
the land; after which they tore up the flags,
threw down the poles that had been set up for
marks, burnt the Surveyor's houses, and sent