NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
Published by Authority

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto
annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may
relate.

By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. VI. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1846. No. 22.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 14th December, 1846.

HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor
has been pleased to give direction for the
re-publication of the following Despatches from
the London Gazette of the 26th June, 1846:

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Her Majesty's Ship Castor, Kawakawa
River, Bay of Islands, New Zealand,
January 13, 1846.

SIR, I have the honor to forward to you, for
the information of the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, copies of my letter No. 6 (of the
9th January 1846), and No 7 (of this date), to
His Excellency the Commander in Chief on this
station, agreeable with the Admiralty instruc-
tions, page 89, article 56.

I have the honour to be, &c.
C. GRAHAM,
Captain and Senior Officer at
New Zealand.

To the Secretary of the Admiralty,
London.

Her Majesty's Ship Castor, Kawakawa
River, Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
January 9, 1846.

SIR, I have the honour to report to your Ex-
cellency the proceedings of the squadron under
my command since my last communication, dated
the 15th December 1845.

His Excellency Governor Grey arrived here on
the 18th ultimo, and it being his wish and inten-
tion to advance into the country to punish the
rebel chief named Kawiti, stationary in a Pah,
as mentioned in my last letter, No. 4, I imme-
diately landed the seamen and marines of this
ship, with proper officers, amounting to one bun-
dred and eighty-eight (188) persons, with arms,
ammunition, rockets, &c., &c., and ordered Liente-
nant Otway, who commanded them, to piace him-
self under the immediate command of Comman-
der Hay, of the Racehorse, whom I instructed
(or rather confirmed the orders of Sir Everard
Home) to act with all the naval force, under the
direction of Colonel Despard.

Her Majesty's Ship Calliope arrived at the
Bay of Islands on the 31st December, and I have,
according to your orders, detained that ship.

I have ordered the Osprey round to Hokianga
river, to protect British subjects, who are under
considerable alarm from the unsettled state of
the country.

I shall feel it necessary to detain the Calliope,
North Star, and Racehorse for the present; and,
in coming to this decision, I have to inform your
Excellency, that I do so, after due consultation
with His Excellency the Governor, from whom
I learn that the affairs in the south of this island
are in such a state, as may possibly require an
extraordinary force and exertions to quell insur-
rection, even if our proceedings in this district
are successful, and peace results.

Her Majesty's steamer Driver has not yet ar-
rived; but I shall take the earliest opportunity,
after warlike affairs in this part ofthe island are
over, to establish coal depots for any steam vessel
of war which may arrive.

I send a copy of this letter to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, agreeable with the Admiralty in-
structions, page 89, article 56.

I have the honor to be, &c.
C. GRAHAM, Captain.

To His Excellency Rear Admiral
Sir T. COCHRANE, C. B. Com-
mander in Chief. &c, &c.