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Downing-street, Aug. 25, 1863.
Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge your despatch,
N 0.56 of the 27th May, enclosing a proclamation by which
you announced the abandonment of the purchase of the
land at the Weifara, which was offered for sale to the Go-
vernment in 1839, and conditionally accepted by your pre-
decessor.

PRICE .4d.
STAMPED

use of the officials and workmen belonging to the steam
reserve. Admiralty instructions have also been given for
the millwrights' shop to be used as an improving school for
junior engineers of the navy, who will bo required to devote
a certain portion of their time to the practical study of ma-
chinery, in addition to their course of theoretical study at
the dockyard school. The above alterations have been ren-
dered necessary in order to prepare the junior officers of the
naval engineers for the scientific examinations ordered by
the Lards of the Admiralty in a recent circular. The con-
trol of the steam reserve factory will be vested in the in-
spector of machinery afloat, who will be assisted in his
duties by a chief engineer.

I thought it my duty to convey to you at once by the
last mail my approval of the course which you had then re-
aolved to take; and I now proceed to address you more
fuily upon the subject, with reference especially to your
detpatch of the 24th April, and the communications be-
tween yourself and your Ministers which it enclosed.
The facts upon which you mainly ground the important
deeitiou at which you have arrived, and which, strung:; to
say, have only now been discovered by your personal in-
quiries, and by Teira's admissions to the native Minister
(Mr. Dillon Bell) appear to be these :-1. That W. King's
residence on the disputed laud upon the south bank of the
Waitara was not merely, as had been always represented by
the sellers, by permission of Teira's father, but in virtue of
an arrangement made by all that section of the Ngatiawa
tribe, for the safe defence against the Waikatos. 2. That
a large number of natives, between 200 and 300, were living
upon the block at the time when it was offered for sale,
whose dwellings and cultivations were destroyed when poi
session was taken by the military. 3. That Teira, as he now
asserts, never intended to sell the pahs, one of which was in
his own occupation, and did intend to except from sale a re-
serve of 200 acres, although no such reserve was named in
the deed of sale, as ought to have been done.
I proceed to explain to you the effect which these states
meats have produced upon my mind, both with respect to
the transactions of 1859-60 and the measure which you have
now adopted,
If it be true that a number of families were residing upon
and cultivating portions of the land offered for sale (variously
estimated at from 10 to 120 acres out of the 980 acres which
formed the "Block"), I have no doubt but that Governor
Gore Browne and his Ministers, upon discovering the fact,
would have carefully reserved and respected such portions,
in accordance with the invariable practice of the New Zea-
land Government, or even have refused to have any further
dealings with parties who, like Teira and the other sellers,
had been guilty of concealing from the Governor so impor-
tant a circumstance. If again they had been aware that W.
King had established his residence on the south bank of the
Waitara in virtue of a general tribal arrangement for pur-
poses of defence, this fact might have formed an important
element in their decision as to whether the purchase could
properly and safely be proceeded with. On the whole, I
agree with you that your predecessor, if he had been in pos-
session of these facts, would not have committed himself to
the purchase, and I am clearly of opinion that he would not
have been justified in doing so, The information, indeed,
which you now supply converts into a certainty the doubts
which I expressed in my despatch of Nov. 27, 1860, and
upon other occasions, as to the prudence of the policy pur-
sued by Governor Browne and his Ministers, with an evi-
dent want of sufficient knowledge of the case, as well as of

Admiral Richard Saumarem died on Saturday morning
last at Clifton. The deceased was a midshipman on board
the Spartan at the reduction of the Castles of Pesaro and
Cesenatico. He also took part in the action with a Neapo-
litan flotilla in the Bay of Naples. As Lieut. of the Bac-
chante ho was engaged in the sieges of Trieste and Cattaro.
His commissions bore date as follows :--Lieut., Dec. 5,
1813—Commander, May 19, 1819—Capt., April 17, 1824
Rear-Admiral, May 28, 1853. Recently he became Admiral
on the retired list. _ _ .

Captain John Moore, C. 8., recently private secretary to
the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty, has
been appointed a naval aide•de-camp to the Queen, vice
Capt. the Hon. James Robert Drummond, C. 8., promoted
to be Rear-Admiral.

The following appointments and promotions were made
yesterday at the Admiralty :—Staff•Commander Charles J.
Polkinghorne, to the Nile ; Lieut. Charles G. F. Knowles,
to command the Investigator; Sub-Lieut. Joshua Cole, to
the Hector; the Rev. I). J. Boutflower, Chaplain and
Naval Instructor, to the Aurora ; the Rev, A. G. Berry,
Chaplain to the Prince Consort; David F. Clow, Pay-
master to the Canopus; James Wotton, acting Ist class
Assist. Engineer in the Immortalite, promoted ; and
Andrew Leitch, 2d class Assist.-Engineer in the Duncan,
promoted.

foresight of the consequences, though with fair and upright
intentions,; while it lessens the serious difficulty of aban-
doning a publicly declared determination in the face of
armed opposition.
I have said so much as to the propriety and prudence of
the Waitara purchase. But I must add, on the other hand,
that my view of the justice of exerting military force against
W. King and his allies remains unchanged. That chief's
conduct, from first to last, still seems to rue to have been
inconsistent with any degree of submission to the Queen's
sovereignty over New Zealand. In February, 1359, before
the Waitara question arose, he had given notice to the Go-
vernor that he would allow no land to be sold within a dis-
trict extending 40 mulles north of the European boundary
at Taranaki, an interdict of a rebellious character, to which
the reasons now or formerly alleged against the Waitara
sale can of course have no application. In the same way, at
the public meeting where Teira offered the land, and during
the many months which elapsed before the survey, he gave
no reasons for his opposition, he afforded no explanations of
it, either such as were provided for him by others at the
time, or such as might have been drawn from the statements
which you have now conveyed to me. In short, he never
assumed any attitude towards the Governor but one of do.
fiance, and, to use the language of Chief Justice Arney in
the Legislative Council, never made " any intelligible claim
of right to the land, or any other declaration than a decla-
ration of war."
No one can deny that, had he entered into any peaceable
and loyal explanations, they would have been attended to,

or that if the Government survey had been allowed to pro-
ceed, the pahs and cultivations would not have been inter-
fered with, or anything done by Government officers incon-
sistent with the notice given by Governor Brown some
months before, " that if any man can prove his claim to any
piece of land within the boundary described, such claim
would be respected," I dissent, therefore, from the view of
the matter conveyed by the language which in your despatch.
of April 24th you place in the mouth of the natives, via.,
" that the people of Waiters, without having been guilty
of any crime, were driven at the point of tho sword from
villages, houses, and homes which they had occupied for
years." The truth being that W. King and his followers
brought these consequences upon themselves by their own
conduct, and that the latter, far from being evicted (as it
were) for the purpese of taking possession of the purchased
land, themselves, in the consciousness of hostility,abandoned
their pahs, which were only destroyed after hostile acts had

been committed by W. King's party, and military operations
bad actually commenced. Again, with respect to the asser-
tion which had attributed to the natives, that they fought in
the late war simply "for their hearths and homes," and not
at all for the maintenance of "Tribal Right" or tho
"Mane" of the Maori King, or to prohibit the sale of land
to the Crown even by owners desirous to sell, I can only say
that the great body of evidence before me, including that of
the ardent and able defenders of W. King, to whom the
allegations now made seem to have been unknown, makes it
impossible for me to accept them as worthy of credit. I hold,
therefore, that no injustice—and it is with the question of
justice only that I am now dealing—was either intended or
done to W. King and his followers by the employment of
military force to carry into effect the survey of the Waiters
land for the purpose of ascertaining how much or how little
of it was owned by Teira and the others whso joined with
him in the sale to tho Crown. I also believe that in the then
state of mind of a portion of the New Zealand natives espe-
cially those of Taranaki, collision between them and tho
Government was not to be avoided without great diticulty,
rare forbearance, and oven tolerance of conduct which, vnder
ordinary circumstances, would be incompatible with the
dignity of the Crown.
These convictions, however,do not prevent me from deeply,
regretting the evils of the late war, and especially so if any
of the natives are under the impression that it arose out
of an act of injustice committed against them by the Go-
vernment, I heartily share your anxiety to remove, so far
as lies in our power, any such belief for the future, and it
was with that hope that I at once signified to you my ap-
proval of the course you have taken in relinquishing the
completion of the Waitara purchase, without further inves-
tigation, even though that course goes bevond what I be-
lieve strict justice to require, and is exposes to the dangers
pointed out by your responsible advisers. Those dangers
are of course increased by the unfortunate chaxico
by which
the massacre of Lieut. Tragett and his men took place, be-
fore the announcement of the decision which you already
formed. I am far, however, from blaming you for the delay
' caused by the discussions between your Ministers avd your-
self upon so difficult a questalthough it woulti have
been better if the re-occupation of the Tataraimaka block
and the abandonment of the Waitara had been effecteil at
one and the same time—and I entirely concur in your
opinion that the subsequent outrage committed by th e
natives to the south, unconnected apparently with W. King'
and the Ngatiawae, is not a sufficient reason for not doing
whlant
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only
bye dtooneexaptrethsse AmVy earnestaitara, hope
that the decisive success gained by General Cameron find
the troops, together with a firm attitude on your part, sup-
ported by your Ministers, will make it impossible for tho
natives to resist the nature of a policy dictated by the de-
sire to root out a belief in wrong done, and a suspicion of
wrong intended against them, which might form an obstacle
in the way of their reconcilement with their European fel-
,ew-subjeets and with their Sovereign.—l have ,Sc.c.,
NEWCASTLE.
Governor Sir George Grey, S.C.B.

THE LATE ADMIRAL HAM ELlN.—Adirtirai
melin, whose death was anncunced in the Moniteur
yesterday, will be well remembered :in England as the
coadjutor of Admiral Deans Pandas in the Black Sea during
the Crimean war. This distinguished naval officer was born
Sept. 2, 1796. He was the nephew of Admiral Baron Ha-
melin, a sailor who saw much service under the First Empire.
At the age of 11 his uncle placed him as a midshipman on
board the Venus, and while yet a boy he saw a great deal of
fighting. In 1812, having obtained a commission, he took part
in the expedition to the Scheldt. His promotion was rapid,
notwithstanding the peace which followed the battle of
Waterloo. In 1828 he became a captain, and in 1812 a rear-
admiral. The Crimean war found him maritime prefect of
Toulon, and he was then selected for the command of the
Black Sea fleet. The memorable leading of the French
troops previous to the battle of the Alma was effected under
his direction. During the attack on Sebastopol forts of the
17th of October, a shell struck the quarter-dc-ek of theiVi
de Paris, and killed Lieut. Sommelier by Ado-frahleiainck.
lin's side. He himself was knocked down
He rose and continued to command his ve,bsy,t
storm of Russian projectiles. His conduct 0n,4 that
f full atirairal.
rewarded by his promotion to the rank admaiydswt
ass
1855 to 1860, whenz ho
On the de9.th of Ducos he was
Marine, which office he held from
post of Grand Chancel-
retired to the snug and honourable
ves a son,who is captain
appointed "sited Minis, ter of
for of the Legion of Honour. lite
married only a few weeks
Bretagne. His daughter wi.
weddinghad been fixed for Jan. 5,
before his death. The
approaching advanced the
admiral feeling
.his end app The
in the navy, and at this momesn secondiea in command of the
but the a
Emperor has ordered that he shall be buried in the loyaliles,
:he funeral will take place eh hreday.
time in order that he might be present at the nuptials.