Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1863 – No. 25

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✨ Government Correspondence

I have the honor to forward to you herewith the accompanying copy of a despatch which has been received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies in reply to that memorial.

I have, &c.,

READ, WOOOD,

For the Colonial Secretary.

His Honor the Superintendent,
New Plymouth.

Copy of Despatch from His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G., to Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.

Downing-street,
22nd August, 1863.

Sir,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 53, of the 16th May, enclosing a memorial to the Queen from the inhabitants of Taranaki, to which reference was made in your previous despatch, No. 40, together with a memorandum on the subject from your Responsible Advisers.

I request that you will inform the memorialists that their petition was laid before the Queen and that Her Majesty was pleased to receive it very graciously.

Without entering into any discussion of the particular allegations contained in the memorial as to the cause and course of the recent hostilities with a portion of the natives of New Zealand, I have to direct you to assure the memorialists of Her Majesty’s regret for the losses and sufferings which they have sustained.

At the same time, you will remind them that such sufferings are incidental to the situation of persons who have settled themselves in the midst of a warlike and uncivilized race; and, further, that a large force of Her Majesty’s troops, maintained at Imperial cost, and commanded by an able General, has been furnished for their protection. Beyond this, the Queen can only refer them to their local Government, and to the Parliament in which they are represented, whose wisdom under the guidance of an eminent Governor, Her Majesty trusts may provide for their relief and security in every way consistent with justice towards her subjects of the native race.

I have, &c.,

(Signed) Newcastle,

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B., &c., &c., &c.

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VUW Te Waharoa — Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1863, No 25

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🏛️ Transmission of Despatch from Colonial Secretary

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
KeywordsDespatch, Colonial Secretary, New Plymouth, Duke of Newcastle
👩‍💼 Officials

Read Wood, For the Colonial Secretary

🏛️ Despatch from Duke of Newcastle to Governor Sir George Grey

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated22 August 1863
KeywordsMemorial, Queen, Taranaki, Hostilities, Natives
👩‍💼 Officials

Newcastle, Duke of Newcastle, K.G.

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