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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(Province of Taranaki).
Published by Authority.
Vol. XII.] NEW PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1864. [No. 5.
The following Documents and Correspondence are printed for public information by order of the Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki,
W. M. CROMPTON,
Speaker.
January 12, 1864.
MESSAGE No. 116.
Superintendent’s Office,
New Plymouth, 18th Dec., 1863.
The Superintendent has the honor to transmit for the information of the Provincial Council, copies of letters written by him in 1858, with the replies, while he was not Superintendent of the Province, also copy of a memorandum on the present condition of the North Island, &c., written at the request of the Native Minister, who received it on the 2nd of May last.
As copies of these documents have been laid on the table of the House of Representatives, the Superintendent considers himself at liberty to lay them before the Provincial Council.
Charles Brown,
Superintendent.
The Speaker, Provincial Council.
New Plymouth, New Zealand,
8th February, 1858.
Sir,—I have the honor to enclose for transmission through His Excellency the Governor, communication to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, recommending the raising of troops from among Her Majesty’s native subjects, for service at the Cape of Good Hope or in India.
I hope the proposition will meet with the approval and support of His Excellency’s Government as one likely to benefit the natives themselves and to benefit the Colony by the removal of the most troublesome, till the colonists have a greater numerical superiority, and are able to maintain the supremacy of our rule, laws and customs, for the benefit of both races.
I have, &c.,
(Signed)
CHARLES BROWN.
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
Auckland.
New Plymouth, New Zealand,
8th February, 1858.
Sir,—I have the honor to submit for the consideration and approval of Her Majesty’s Government the proposition that troops be raised from among Her Majesty’s native subjects in this Colony for service at the Cape of Good Hope or in India.
The natives are now a source of uneasiness to the Colonial Government and settlers, and are likely to require for some time the presence of a considerable body of English troops to maintain the peace of the Colony if some new direction is not given to the energies and aspirations of the native youth, who find themselves from a variety of causes, in which the disparity of the sexes, and their own native customs, habits, and superstitions, bear a great part, unable to keep pace with the Europeans, and barely even of maintaining their own positions. The proposition I make, would I conceive, if adopted, give a congenial occupation
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Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1864, No 5
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🏘️ Transmission of Documents and Correspondence
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government18 December 1863
Documents, Correspondence, Provincial Council, Superintendent
- Charles Brown, Superintendent
🛡️ Proposal for Raising Native Troops
🛡️ Defence & Military8 February 1858
Native Troops, Cape of Good Hope, India, Colonial Government
- Charles Brown