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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, February 12th, 1858.
THE following Despatch from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, with its enclosure, is published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

[Circular.]
Downing Street,
22nd October, 1857.
SIR,—I transmit to you, herewith, for your information and guidance, a copy of a Circular Memorandum which his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief has communicated to the several Officers Commanding the Queen's Troops in the Colonies.

You will consider that Memorandum in the light of an additional Colonial Regulation, issued as it is for the better definition of the relative powers and authority of Governors of Colonies, and of Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Forces.
I have, &c., &c.,
H. LABOUCHERE.
Governor Gore Browne, C.B.
&c., &c.

CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM.
Horse Guards, S. W.,
12th September, 1857.
Doubts having sometimes arisen between the Governor of a Colony holding the Commission of Governor and Commander-in-Chief, and the Officer Commanding the Troops, as to their relative authority and powers, it is to be distinctly understood, that the title of Commander-in-Chief with which a Civil Governor of a Colony is invested, gives him no power or authority over the Queen's Troops or the Military Chest; but that it undoubtedly belongs to the Governor of a Colony to call out, or organise, any body or bodies of men, whom, in the exercise of any general or special authority lawfully vested in him, he may judge it necessary or right to summon for the defence of the Colony against aggression, or for the preservation of public tranquillity.

The Officers who may be selected to command these bodies can only be commissioned by the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in the name and on behalf of the Queen.

The Clothing, Arms, Rations, and Pay, of the Officers and Men must be subject to such provision as may be made by the Colony, in pursuance of any legislative enactment, passed, or to be passed, for this purpose. If the Colonial Treasury should be unable to meet such expenditure, recourse must be had to the Military Chest; and it is the duty of the Officer Commanding Her Majesty's Forces to authorise by his warrant, upon the requisition of the Governor, the issue of such advances as may be considered necessary for the purposes in question.

If such local Force, or any portion of it, becomes embodied with the Queen's Troops, either in Division, Brigades, or Detachments, the selection of officers for the command of such a mixed force rests with the Officer commanding the Queen's Troops.

As it is indispensably necessary that the Governor of the Colony should upon all occasions receive the earliest intelligence of the movements of the Troops, and of every occurrence which falls within their observation, it is the duty of the officer commanding any detached Force or post to send to the Governor of the Colony direct, copies of all reports which he may from time to time receive.

In the event of active Military operations taking place in a colony, it exclusively belongs to the Governor to state and explain to the Officer Commanding the Troops the policy of Her Majesty's Government, and the Military measures by which that policy is to be obtained, but it rests with the Officer Commanding the troops alone to direct the execution of those measures.

Officers commanding at the several Foreign Stations will be pleased to give directions that the above Instructions be officially recorded at the Stations under their command, as contemplated at page 344 of The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army.

By Command,
W. F. FORSTER, D. A. G.
To General or other Officers
Commanding at Foreign
Stations and to Civil Governors of Colonies.

Republished from the New Zealand Gazette
11th February, 1858.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, Feb. 11th, 1858.
THE following additional Instructions, under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, delegating to the Governor of New Zealand the several powers reserved to Her Majesty by the Act, 15th and 16th Victoria, Chapter 72, are published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

VICTORIA REGINA.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
To Our Trusty and Well-beloved
THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Esquire,
Companion of Our Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Colonel
in Our Army, Our Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over