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NIADANIE TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION._
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(From the Times Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, June 14.

In consequence of General Cameron having de-
spatched a special steamer from Auckland after the
mail of last month had left, with the view of catch-
ing the European steamer at Melbourne, the fol-
ing memorandum of the Ministry will probably have
reached London before my present communication
does :

" In reference to certain statements made by Lieut.-Gen
Sir Duncan A. Cameron, which have been communicated
by the Governor to his responsible advisers, Ministers
express their regret that the Liout.-General should have
thought fit to attribute base and unworthy motives, and
a culpable disregard for the lives of British officers and
men, to the Ministry of New Zealand, and, by implication,
to Her Majesty's representatives in the colony. They
believe that, having regard to the character of the colony
(which it is their duty to uphold), and to their own, which,
as public men, is the property of the colony, it is impos-
sible longer to accept assistance so unwillingly rendered.
Nor, indeed, can it be hoped that zeal and energy (which
alone can secure success or lead to any useful result in
operations of the field) will be displayed by any officer,
however distinguished, in support of a cause which is
branded by him with Such severe reprobation.
"April 8." "FREDERICK A. WELD.

This memorandum is, in fact, nothing more nor
less than a dismissal of the General so far as the
Ministry is concerned, and culminates our compli-
cations. Its history is briefly this :—Some three
months ago the General wrote to the Governor a
semi-official letter, charging the Ministry with the
continued prosecution of the war for purposes of
aggrandisement and in utter carelessness of the
lives of the Imperial troops. When the Governor
showed this to Ministers privately, they declined to
take notice of it without its being placed before
them officially, which was eventually done. As the
Governor and Ministry had acted in entire harmony
in devising the Taranaki and Wanganui cam-
PQ
ainna the charges brought against the latter in-
cluded the former by implication ; and alike con-
scious that their motives and conduct were unim-
peachable, Sir George Grey terminated all further
relations with General Cameron, excepting those
strictly official ; while Mr. Weld and his colleagues
declined to be any longer parties to the conduct of
operations under the General's directions. The
story goes that the Ministry did not intend to
make the above-quoted memorandum public until
the last month's mail had given both the Governor
and the General the opportunity of making their
appeal to the Secretary of State ; but from the
Governor keeping the memorandum in his pocket
for several weeks, as he has a habit of doing
with important documents, the General first be-
. came aware of it through the Auckland press, to
which it was communicated a few days after the
departure of the ordinary mail for England. The
General thereupon
wrote to Sir George Grey, up-
braiding him with making official use of a private
to which Sir George communication,replied that
the General's charges could not be considered pri-
vate, since the General had him Self communicated
the substance to the War-office at home. Nettled
at this mode of treatment the General immediately
sent one of the transport steamers to Melbourne,
where his special despatches no doubt arrived in time
to be forwarded home. The colony has already
suffered severely from the antagonism between the
Governor and his former Minister, now it is suffer-
ing no less severely from this quarrel with the Gene-
ral. In the former case the Imperial Government
naturally sided with its own officers, now it must
decide between them. One or the other, it is pre-
sumed, must be recalled, if not both of them. Gen.
Cameron is understood to have sent an officer to
Galle, to telegraph to London for instructions, and
to wait there until he gets them.

The memorandum has been thoroughly can-
vassed by the local press ; the most influential of
the Auckland journals Stigmatising it as " a gross

piece of impertinence," while those of the south are
loud in their praises of its " gentle and gentle-
manly self-assertion." The almost universal opinion
is, that the conduct of Ministers is legitimate and
dignified, and that as men conscious of their own
rectitude, and the singleness of mind with which
they have advised the Governor, they had no other
course open to them than that which they have
adopted. Meanwhile, what now is understood to
have been the General's make-belief prosecution of
the West Coast campaign had until the last few
days the appearance of being abandoned, the field
troops returning to Wanganui, and of course by
night whenever practicable. Portions of them were
at once sent to Taranaki, to reach which place the
men marched from the front 60 miles southward to
Wanganui, and then taking shipping, proceeded
northwards 120 miles. A march of 30 miles north-
ward, in the first instance, would have enabled them
to reach the Taranaki outposts, and so opening up
the whole line of coast have afforded a pretext for
considering the campaign at an end. The real ob-
ject of the campaign, it will be remembered, was to
make a military road, or at least secure such a
command over the whole route as would enable
it to be executed at pleasure ; but the troops
have neither made a single mile of road nor
protected the civilians in the one that was being
got on with when the campaign began. The dis-
grace of leaving 30 miles of the coast unoccupied
is, however, strange to say, being now obliterated.
That which the General refused to do two months
ago under the pretext of winter setting in and the
difficulty of obtaining supplies, is now being done
by his subordinate officers. The troops are being
marched back again to the front, and a simultaneous
movement from the extreme positions at each end
is understood to have been decided upon. Colonel
Wane is moving southward from theTaranaki side,
while Col. Weare moves northward from that of
Wanganui, with the object of forming a junction
and thereby opening up the whole coast as origi-
nally intended. Nor is this all. Troops have been
moved forward to Waitotara for the purpose of
compelling the evacuation of the Wareroa Pah, the
pah which the General avoided by a night march
at the commencement of the campaign. To ordi-
nary minds the military operations are incompre-
hensible. No one seems to know who commands.
The Governor, when at Wanganui two months
since, sent an expedition to occupy a post 70 miles
up that river, certainly without the sanction, if not
in direct opposition to the General's wishes. The
expedition, composed of from 200 to 300 militia
and natives, was fortunately successful, for although
refused the Commissariat steamer and obliged to
risk the effect of surprise by employing canoes, the
little force succeeded in occupying a position which
the General had declared to necessitate the employ-
ment of 2,000 troops. Then, again, it was by the
advice of and with the personal assistance' of Major
Atkinson, the Defence Minister, that Col. Wane
stretched his instructions, and took possession of
the White Cliff, Warea, and Opunake, and since the

last mail we have had Major von Tempskay, of the
Forest Rangers, breaking the monotony of Patea,
camp life by making a raid inland, by which,
although failing to effect the surprise intended, he
did excellent service. It will scarcely be credited
that the Government of the colony knows little or
nothing more than outsiders do of these movements.
It is presumed that the General and the Governor
acquaint one another with their plans ; but at this
moment the Ministry are entirely ignorant of the
movement of the troops I have indicated, except as
they gather the particulars from 'the newspapers.
Common courtesy should keep them au courant,
but from the reticence of the General to the
Governor, or from that of the Governor (absent
at Auckland) to the Ministry, so little is
known that if the war was being prosecuted in
China, the New Zealand ;Ministry could hardly
know less, and yet the British Parliament considers
we ought to be very grateful for being allowed to
pay only £4O a head for each soldier under General
Cameron's command, forgetting that the colony is
being plunged deeper and deeper into pecuniary'
and other difficulties from which it cannot recover

for years.
I mentioned last month that the Hau Hau fana-
ticisms on portions of the east coast had consider-
ably subsided, mainly through the influence of two
Wellington chiefs, Wi Tako and Matini to Whiwhi,

and their 30 or 40 followers. It has now made its
appearance on the west coast of this province at
Mauawatu and Otaki, in consequence of the visit of
eine prophets from Opotiki. The murder of the
.dev. Mr. Volkner is openly justified by the new

converts, and they declare that if Gabriel directs
them to similar deeds they will obey him. It has
been difficult for the Government to act in the mat-
ter. Any attempt to put down these fanatics by
force would spreadwar over the whole of the settled
districts on that coast, and yet to allow the perni-
cious doctrines to be promulgated unchecked would
be culpably to subject the settlers to the fear of out-
rage. Fortunately Wi Tako returned to Welling-
ton, and was urged to proceed to Otaki imme-
diately, close to which place he resides, in the hope
that his influence.there may subdue the excitement,
and enable Ministers to escape from the dilemma
in which they are placed. Until Wi Tako's sub-
mission last year he and his people were looked
upon as the prime movers of all that was threat-
ened in the neighbourhood of the west coast
southward of Wanganui ; but Dr. Featherston,
at that time acting as the general Government's
agent for Wellington, well knew that Wi Tako's
adherence to the King movement sprung from the
hope that it would have introduced law and order
among the tribes, and with much painstaking se-
cured his great influence in preventing the commit-
tal of overt acts by the turbulent spirits around him.
Now, Wi Tako has earned for himself the distinc-
tion of being the most potent ally the Government
have in this neighbourhood. The Ministry are
anxious to express their sense of his services, but
they have as yet been unable to do so in such a
form as will not foster the opinion, more or less
prevalent among the loyal natives, that more is to be
gained by opposing the Queen than there is in sup-
porting her. It is only in deference to this opinion
that the desire to honour Wi Tako with a seat in
the Upper House of Assembly has been,
temporarily
at least, given up. No chief in this part of the
island is so well qualified for the position as he is,
and although the idea of introducing natives into
the Assembly has hitherto been derided by the great
section of the colonists, it is by no means impro-
bable that it will not speedily be realized.
Her Majesty's steamship Eclipse has made two
unsuccessful attempts to capture the murderers of
the Rev. Mr. Volkner. On the morning of Sunday,
the 21st of May, she arrived off Opotiki, and after
landing a native to reconnoitre, determined to at-
tempt a night surprise. Shortly after midnight four
boats were manned with about 80 of the crew,
Captain Freemantle being in command. The party
had not proceeded far from the beach when they
found the natives on the look-out prepared to op-
pose them. An interchange of volleys took place,
when, fearing an ambush, the sailors effected a retreat
with only one of their number wounded, two of the
natives being killed. On the following Wednesday,
while the Eclipse was at anchor at another settle-
ment, Captain Freemantle was informed that
Ephraim, the half caste who fastened the rope
round Mr. Volkner's neck, was on shore in com-
pany only with some women and children. A
native (the same who landed at Opotiki) and
two sailor lads disguised as natives were sent on

shore, and succeeding in capturing Ephraim dragged
him down to the beach, where he adroitly gave them
the slip, and, unhurt by the shot fired at him by one
of the lads, made good his escape. The report of
the revoNrer brought Capt. Freemantle's boat, but
too late to be of any other service than that of re-
conveying the baulked captors to his ship. These
unsuccessful attempts are the more to be deplored

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ganui side of the island, and was also intended to be
a surprise; but the Rangers failing to reach the
settlement before cockcrow, the natives succeeded
temporarily in retiring, leaving 17 of their own
number killed and two of ours mortally wounded.
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so that the maj or has been complimented by a dinner
given by the Premier.

The submission of the King, William Thompson,
and other influential chiefs marks the past month
with importance. Brigadier-Gen. Carey thus reports
the circumstance to the commander of the forces :
" Camp Te Awamntu, May 28.
" Sir,—With reference to my letter of the 26th inst., I
have the honour to state, for the information of the Com-
mander of the Forces, that I proceeded at daylight yester-
day, accompanied by Major Tupper, A.D.C., Capt. Brett,
D.A.Q.M.G., and Capt. Blewitt, 65th Regiment, to
Tamahere, where the chief, William Thompson, had agreed
to meet me.

"Shortly after my arrival at that place Mr. George Gra-
ham rode in, and announced the approach of William
Thompson and other chiefs of note, handing me a paper or
covenant in Thompson's handwriting (copy and translation
herewith enclosed), which the said Thompson and the chiefs
were willing to sign in my presence under the British flag.
"I then walked forward to meet Thompson, who when
he saw me inimediately dismounted, and came rapidly to-
wards me, uncovered. We shook hands. He then laid his
taiaha on the ground at my feet, in token of his submission
to her Majesty, and said he hoped I would accept it as his
gun.

"We then proceeded to the spot where the British flag
was flying, where Thompson signed the convenant in the
name of the King and himself, in which he was followed by
the principal chiefs assembled, after which I attached my
signature thereto.
" The only requests madeby Thompson were as follows—
" Ist. That the Governor would appoint a Commissioner to
inquire into his (Thompson's) character, which he affirmed
had been much maligned.
"2d. That ho (Thompson) was most anxious to see the
face of tiu Tamihana' again, and hoped to do so soon.
" 3d. That I should let him (Thompson) know, as soon
as possible, what the Governor thought of his submission.
" I cannot conclude this letter without bringing to the
notice of the Lieutenant-General commandingT the forces
the very important services rendered to the country by Mr.
George Graham, assisted by Mr. Dehar, in bringing about
this most momentous event..
" I was given to understand that the chief Rewi would
immediately tender his submission also.
" The bearing of the chief Thompson upon this occasion
was particularly silent and submissive in the extreme.
" I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
"GEORGE JACKSON CAREY, Brigadier-General."
" (Translation.)
" We consent that the laws of the Queen be laws for the
King (Maori), to be a protection for us all for ever and ever.
This is the sign of making peace, my coming into the pre-
sence of my lighting friend* General Carey.
" WILLIAM THOMPSON,
" TE REWETI,

" RIKI.
" RIIIIA.
" PARATA.

"HOSE,
" GEORGE J. CAREY, Brigadier-Goneral.
" Tamahore, May 27, 1865."
In every way this submission is most fortunate at
the present juncture. We do not know whether it
means submission to the Queen conditionally or un-
conditionally, or whether it is only intended to con-
vey the idea that the King is willing to adopt the
Queen's laws as the basis of his independent rule.
But whatever it means, it may be regarded as
greatly facilitating the peace of the North. The
proclamation appointing the Ist of June inst. as the
last day on which claimants to land confiscated in
Waikato were allowed to put in an appearance has
no doubt had much to do with it, Thompson owning
very large tracts therein. This is the more probable
because the submission was brought about by a
land speculator, who visited Thompson's tribe with
a view to purchase—the Queen's right of pre-emp-
tion being now waived over the whole island, and
the Land Purchase Department of the Government
wholly done away with. What the terms of submis-
sion really are, and what may grow out of them, are
matters so important to the colony that it is only
natural to have supposed that the Governor would
have consulted his Ministry thereon. They do not,
however, know anything about the submission but
from newspaper report. The Governor has sent for
Thompson to visit Auckland. Mr. Fox, the late
Premier, who has just proceeded to England, assigns
among other reasons for temporarily retiring from
Parliamentary life one which may be considered
apropos to this subject :---
"As regards the great trouble of New Zealand (writes
Mr. Fox to hie constituents), the native difficulty, I do not
believe that so long as Governor Grey remains in the colony
there is the remotest prospect of any satisfactory solution of
the problem which four years since was intrusted to him to
solve. 'Still less do I believe that, while he is in the colony,
the Assembly can exercise any appreciable influence upon
this question. The possibility of its doing so is greatly
lessened by the terms of Mr. Weld's resolution on respon-
sible government in native affairs of last session, which
practically gives the Governor unlimited power in them,
so long as a single British regiment remains in the colony."
There is an item relative to the escaped prisoners
from Kawau which deserves a brief record. Last
month the Governor carried out to the letter the
promises made long since to those who wished to
return to their homes. A schooner was chartered
to convey a distinguished party of them to Kawhia
and elsewhere, being the last remnant that remained
in the north. The Taranaki settlers were somewhat
surprised to see the notorious 4, Big Joe," who was
taken prisoner at Sentry Hill and confined with the
others at ICawau, land from the schooner in their
midst. This " Big Joe" is a notorious scoundrel,
and no doubt highly appreciates the method that has
been taken to impress him with a sense of the supre-
macy of the law:
The debate in the House of Commons last March
on New Zealand affairs has been well received
throughout the 'colony, on account of the very im-
proved tone assumed by hon. members towards the
colonists. The indications that the Home Govern-
ment were not prepared either to countenance sepa-
ration or interfere with the removal of the seat of
Government have somewhat depressed the good
people in the north, who seemed to anticipate that
Mr. Cardwell would be so highly delighted to have
affairs once more under the acknowleded control of
a Governor as to induce him to concede the separa-
tion'of Auckland instanter. The Governor scarcely
conceals his annoyance at the power of determining
what troops are to be sent home, and when, having
been invested in the general. A correspondence has
taken place between them, inwhich the latter wishes
the former to assume the responsibility, but he will
not. The 65th will probably go home shortly, and
another regiment be sent to Australia, but it is not
impossible that even these may be detained until the
reference to England has settled the disputes between
the Governor; as Commander-in-Chief, and the
General, as Commander of the Forces, from which
distinction much of our present trouble has arisen.
The public are not likely to learn the magnitude of
the evils which this want of unity is breeding until
the meeting of the Assembly. The proclamation
calling it for the middle of next month only awaits
the arrival of the Governor from the north, where
he has been during the whole of the last month.
A portion of the crew of the ship Fiery Star, from
Brisbane to London, was taken off that vessel by
the Dauntless, for Auckland, and landed there on
15th May. The Fiery Star was a Black Ball liner
belonging to T. M. Mackay and Co., of London, and
left Moreton Bay on the lst April with 63 passen-
gers and a crew of 42, making a total of 105 souls.
On April 19, in lat. 46.10 S. long. 170 W., about

Thompson particularly requested that the term "ho;
riri" should be taken as " fighting friend," and not as

enemy.