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my renouncement of it shall be as widely known.
When I explain to the assembled tribes what my
views were when I helped to establish Kingism
years ago—how earnestly I desired the good of
my people, and how I labored to accomplish it—
when I tell them how Waikato scoffed at all
counsels and turned Kingism into a different
thing—when I tell them how consistently I stuck
to Kingism, through report and through
evil report—when I tell them how Waikato is
crushed and conquered—when I tell them all this,
they will understand why it is that I now submit
to your rule, and they will all agree that Kingism
is over. I have nothing to be ashamed of when
I meet the tribes. I was faithful to Kingism till
it died, and I had no hand in its death!

Colonial Secretary—I am satisfied, Wi Tako,
with your words and I believe them. The con-
ditions, as you are aware, require that you should
give up your gun. But I am sure, as you as I
would an English gentleman. You are a great
chief and the principal man in your tribe. I am
satisfied with the tender of your arms. I accept
your word, as the word of a chief, that you will
never use your gun against the pakeha, nor turn
it to an unlawful purpose. I shall not, there-
fore, degrade you by depriving you of it. But
the Ohau and Otaki men—I don't know, and
I shall therefore expect them all to surrender
their guns.

Wi Tako—Mr. Fox, your words are full of
kindness. You have no misgiving about
my sincerity. While I was a Kingite I was true
to the cause. The Governor urged me to give it
up—Mr. Buller urged me, many urged me, and
for many years—but I was staunch to the last.
The word has been spoken; and I shall now be
as faithful to you as I was to the King. There
is one thing, however, I must ask. I want
nothing for myself, but I want employment for
my people. I want you to find some employment
for all of them.

Colonial Secretary—Very well. We shall pro-
bably soon be making great roads all over the
country. There will then be work for all your
people, and the Government will pay them
wages. The chiefs we will appoint assessors and
give them salaries.

Wi Tako—I am satisfied.

Colonial Secretary—I shall now request you
to make the usual Declaration of Allegiance, and
to sign your name to it, in order that I may lay
it before the Governor when I get to Auckland.
A Maori version of the following declaration
was then read by the Resident Magistrate, Wi
Tako repeating it after him in a clear and distinct
voice :—

DECLARATION.

I hereby declare that I am a true and loyal
subject of the Queen, and that I will for ever here-
after bear true allegiance to Her Majesty; that I
will obey Her laws, submit to Her magistrates,
and yield obedience to all the lawful commands
of all in authority under Her Majesty.

Wi Tako having subscribed his name thereto,
the honorable the Colonial Secretary shook him
warmly by the hand and congratulated him in
kind and friendly terms.

College and Grammar School.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, June 11, 1864.

HIS HONOR the Superintendent has
been pleased to re-appoint
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Esq.,
to be a Trustee of the lands granted as an
endowment for a College and Grammar
School in the City of Wellington.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

Boundaries of Rangitiki and Turakina District.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1864.

NOTICE is hereby given that for all pur-
poses connected with the issue of
Crown Grants, or sales of land, the boun-
daries of the Rangitiki and Turakina Sur-
veyed Districts, will be as follows, viz :

RANGITIKI DISTRICT.

Bounded North East by the boundary of
the Rangitiki Block, North by section
marked A, and by sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 44, 46,
46 A, and 58 in the Turakina District, and by
sections Nos 31 and 30 in the Agricultural
Reserve; East by the Rangitiki River,
and by part of section No. 58 in Turakina
District; South by the sea coast, and by
sections Nos. 56 and 57, and 57 A, in the
Turakina District; and West by the Turakina
River, by sections Nos. 58, 57 A, 57, 52,
53, and 54, in the Turakina District, and by
a line bearing about 356° from the North
East corner of said section No. 54, Turakina,
till it strikes the Turakina River.

TURAKINA DISTRICT.

Bounded North by the Turakina River;
East by part of the Western Boundary of
the Rangitiki District; South by part of the
Northern Boundary of the Rangitiki Dis-
trict, and West by the Turakina River.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

The New Zealand Exhibition, 1865.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th June, 1864.

THE following letter from the Honorary
Secretary to the Commissioners of the
above Exhibition, is published for general
information.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

Offices of the Royal Commission,
Dunedin, Otago, N. Z.,
6th June, 1864.

SIR,—As it is of great importance that
the Commissioners should be acquainted
with all facts relating to the resources of
New Zealand, I have the honor to request
that you will issue instructions for the
forwarding to this office of copies in dupli-
cate, of reports, &c., of all Government de-
partments relating to the resources of the
Province of Wellington.

I have the honor further to draw your
attention to the following resolution of the
Commissioners, by which you will perceive
that distinguished services, in developing
the resources of New Zealand, will be re-