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bodiment of more than the mere volunteers.

1. Copy of the Colonial Secretary\'s despatch of 17th March 1856, No. 95.
2. Proposed Head Quarters for the Militia.
3. Clothing, Arms, Accoutrements, &c.
4. Pay to Officers and Privates.
5. Remuneration to Drill Sergeants.
6. Places for drill.
   I now beg to offer for consideration the following observations :—
7. The despatch referred to disposes of any legal doubts of my authority to act under His Excellency\'s Proclamation.
8. The Iron Store on the beach seems to me adapted in the summer months for Head Quarters, &c., and as defending the boats in case of an emergency.
9. With regard to clothing a blue or green serge shirt over the ordinary dress, leather belt and blue cloth cap seem to me sufficient with some distinctive badges for the Officers. Arms I believe the Provincial Government is not sufficiently provided with for four hundred men, I would, therefore, suggest an application to the military authorities for the use of the arms and ammunition of the troops located in this Province that have been superseded by the Enfield Rifle; pending an application to the Home Government to authorise their permanent retention by the Provincial Government for the defence of the Province.
   To press as lightly as possible on the persons liable to serve, and bearing in mind that the Drill Sergeants supplied by the Officer commanding the Troops are not available beyond a mile from the Stockade I would propose the adoption of the following course, if it meets with your Honor\'s approval.
   To publish a list of all those liable to serve between the age of, say, 18 and 50, to the number of four hundred, with a notice that they are drawn out in conformity with the Proclamation of His Excellency, and warning them to attend at such times and places as may by Notice under the Ordinance from time to time to be appointed.
   To divide the same into four companies.
   To submit each Company to a fortnight\'s drill extending over a month.
   To commence with the Town Company, and with the most efficient and intelligent of its privates (remunerated as Drill Sergeants) to drill the out Companies in detachments, consecutively or simultaneously as may be deemed most advisable by your Honor\'s Government.
   To recommend the most efficient, active, and intelligent private for appointment as Adjutant.
   I would recommend the printing of Major Lloyd\'s Manual of Drill, because I consider it more readily acquired in a short space of time, more simple, already known to about one hundred of the Militia, and has been acquiesced in by His Excellency the Governor.

I have, &c.,
CHARLES BROWN,
Captain of the New Plymouth Battalion
of New Zealand Militia.
His Honor the Superintendent.

Superintendent\'s Office,
New Plymouth, 3rd February, 1858.
Sir,—I have the honor to transmit to you herewith a Resolution which the Provincial Council unanimously agreed to this morning in consequence of fresh Native outrages having occurred within the Bell Block to the great danger and terror of some of the settlers whose premises were in the line of fire.
The purport of the resolution is to request you to prohibit the Natives from again engaging in their savage contests on our territory or infringing its neutrality by passing to and fro with arms in their possession. In this Resolution I most fully concur.
The Council likewise unanimously agreed to call upon Mr Charles Brown, the Captain of the New Plymouth Battalion of New Zealand Militia to draw out with all convenient speed four hundred of the inhabitants in terms of His Excellency the Governor\'s proclamation of the 29th October 1855.

I have, &c.,
G. CUTFIELD,
Superintendent.
Major Murray,
Commanding H.M. Troops,
New Plymouth.

To His Honor the Superintendent of the
Province of New Plymouth.
The Address of the Provincial Council
thereof in Session assembled.
Prayeth,—
That your Honor will be pleased to invite Major Murray to intimate to the Natives that they will not be allowed to fight on the European territory, and that its neutrality must be observed by them.
E. L. HUMPHRIES,
Speaker.
Council Chamber,
3rd February 1858.

Taranaki.
3rd February, 1858.
Sir,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day\'s date