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purpose of sending to the Governor of New South Wales for a supply of additional troops, in consequence of alarming symptoms of rebellion having broken out among the native tribes in the vicinity of the Bay of Islands, headed by a powerful chief of the name of Hackey of Waimatte. One hundred and fifty soldiers of the 58th Regiment, were accordingly instantly despatched from Sydney to the Bay of Islands.

One of the speakers at a meeting they held at Kororarika, in July 1844, previous to the vessel sailing, said-" Rauperaha had killed white people, and why could not they?"

Since the fatal affray at Wairoa, which has impressed the whole native population in that country with but too well founded notions of English cowardice, I am inclined to think that the Governor will never be able to get on without having a large disposable force, and an armed steamer of war constantly at his command; and that he will be under the necessity of converting his "Reign of Peace," which, in other circumstances would have been so desirable, into a Reign of Terror."

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In conclusion, I have to return to the New Zealand Company, and to their polite Secretary, Mr. Harington, my best thanks, for the kind assistance which they have at all times afforded me in the prosecution of this work.

A. M.

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WILLIAM LOCKHART, Esq.

OF MILTON-LOCKHART ;

Member of Parliament for the County of Lanark.

MY DEAR SIR,

The long period of time during which you and I have been acquainted, commencing with the days of our folly and of our youth, and the many disinterested marks of friendship which, in journeying through life, I have experienced at your hands, have impressed me with the desire of dedicating to you the following pages, wherein you will find some little account of the wanderings of my riper years, amidst scenes far far removed from the land which gave me birth.

Allow me only to add, that it gave me the most heartfelt satisfaction, when sojourning in

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some of the more remote parts of the habitable globe, to hear that the enlightened freeholders of the most important county in Scotland, had deemed you worthy of being elected as their Representative in Parliament; and, though differing somewhat from you on one or two political questions, yet upon the whole I would take this opportunity of congratulating them on the admirable choice which they have made.

Believe me, ever,

With sincere respect and esteem,
Yours very faithfully,

ALEX. MARJORIBANKS.