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which the settlers of Taranaki naturally feel
for the beautiful and fertile region which
they have improved and adorned by the
care and industry of many years, and their
consequent disinclination to abandon it, a
continual stream of emigration has never-
theless for some years past carried away to
other parts of the Colony and to Australia
a large number of people, who, had they
been able to find room for their enterprise,
would have remained, to augment the re-
sources of the Province, and the wealth of
the Colony.

That the present settlers can no longer
find within the province a field for future
enterprise, and the employment of their in-
creasing families; and that they cannot now
seek new homes in the other provinces with-
out first abandoning the accumulated pro-
perty of many years of toil.

That in the opinion of your memorialists
the colonists of Taranaki have a special
claim to the consideration of the Govern-
ment and of their fellow colonists; inas-
much as nearly the whole of the Natives
now located in the neighbourhood of the
settlement were a few years since dwelling
in the present provinces of Wellington and
Nelson; and that the purchase of the lands
held by Taranaki Natives at Waikanae and
other places, by right of conquest, has been
most prejudicial to New Plymouth, by ac-
cumulating in one spot the scattered re-
mains of the tribes which had formerly re-
sided here, and has been most advantage-
ous to the Provinces in which such pur-
chased lands are situated.

That the difficulties under which both
races are now labouring can only be re-
moved by an entire change in the policy of
the Government, which shall enforce law
and order among the Natives, and give sup-
port and aid to such of them as are willing
to sell land.

That the system heretofore adopted by
the Government, of requiring the as-
sent of every claimants to any piece of
land before a purchase is made, has been
found to operate most injuriously in this
Province, on account of the conflicting inte-
rests of the claimants; and that the suffer-
ers by this system are invariably the men
who are most advanced in civilisation, and
who possess the largest share in the com-
mon property. Your memorialists are
therefore of opinion, that such of the Na-
tives as are willing to dispose of their pro-
portion of any common land should be
permitted to do so; whether such Natives
form a majority, or only a large minority
of the claimants; and that the Government
should compel an equitable division of
such common land among the respective

claimants, on the petition of a certain pro-
portion of them.

That in the opinion of your memorialists
no danger of a war between the Govern-
ment and the Natives need be apprehen-
ded from the prosecution of a vigorous
policy, inasmuch as a large proportion of
the Natives themselves would cordially
support it, and the remainder would, from
the smallness of their number, be incapable
of offering any effectual resistance.

Your memorialists therefore pray, that
your Honorable House will be pleased to
institute an enquiry into the present condi-
tion of the Native inhabitants of this Pro-
vince, and into the causes which have led
to the present difficulties; with a view to
establish order and good government among
the Natives, and to encourage and assist
them to dispose of the common land they
now hold, to the injury alike of them-
selves, the settlers, and the Colony at large.

And your memorialists will ever pray.
New Plymouth, May 19, 1858.

DIRECT TRADE BETWEEN NEW
PLYMOUTH AND SYDNEY.

NOTICE.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
New Plymouth, 22nd May, 1858.

THE Provincial Council of New Ply-
mouth having appropriated Eight hun-
dred pounds (£800) per annum as a bonus
for the encouragement of a direct trade
between this port and Sydney, tenders will
be received at this office until the first day
of August next from all persons willing to
enter into any engagement for the purpose.

The rates of freight and passages, and
the number of trips per annum that will be
guaranteed, should be specified.

The vessel must not be of less than se-
venty five tons register, and must be open
to all shippers.

Copies of the freight lists, both inwards
and outwards, must be supplied to the
Provincial Government, and the engage-
ments for freight and passages must be
under its supervision in order that the ac-
commodation, for which the bonus is to be
given, may not be engrossed or forestalled
by any party.

I. N. WATT,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 14th May, 1858.

THE following Ordinance passed by the
Superintendent and Provincial Coun-
cil of the Province of New Plymouth, in-
tituled

"The Declaratory Roads and Bridges