✨ Governor's Address and Response
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF TARANAKI).
Published by Authority.
Vol. IX. NEW PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1861. No. 21.
Superintendent’s Office,
New Plymouth, 8th October, 1861.
THE following Address from the Inhabitants of Taranaki to Governor Gore Browne, C.B., and the reply of His Excellency thereto, are published for general information:—
E. L. HUMPHRIES,
Deputy-Superintendent.
To His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
Sir,—We, the undersigned inhabitants of Taranaki, desire upon your Excellency’s approaching departure from New Zealand to express our appreciation of your administration of the Government of the Colony, and more especially of the measures taken by your Excellency in connection with the natives of this district.
Although great suffering and loss to our community have resulted from the hostilities which afterwards ensued in this Province, we cannot hesitate to express our conviction that the measures referred to were proper and necessary, and consistent with the rights and interests of both races.
Compelled, as we had been, for years to be passive spectators of the lawlessness of the natives towards ourselves, and latterly of their own internecine feuds, we hailed with unqualified satisfaction the announcement of your Excellency’s determination to put an end to so disastrous a state of affairs. That your Excellency’s intentions were not more ably seconded we have had ample cause to deplore, but we look forward with confidence to the eventual success of the policy with which your Excellency’s name will always be associated, believing that it is founded in strict justice, and that it will confer on both races a degree of prosperity and happiness that could not otherwise be attained.
In bidding your Excellency farewell and expressing a hope that health and happiness may attend your Excellency in your new command, we would wish to associate the name of Mrs Gore Browne.
We have the honor to be
Sir,
Your Excellency’s obedient and faithful servants,
New Plymouth, Taranaki,
26th August, 1861.
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Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1861, No 21
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🏛️ Address to Governor Gore Browne and His Reply
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration8 October 1861
Governor, Address, Response, Taranaki, Native Affairs
- Thomas Gore Browne (Colonel), Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Mrs Gore Browne, Mentioned in address
- E. L. Humphries, Deputy-Superintendent