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Contents

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Memoir,	1
Letter to Mr. Gladstone on the Government of Colonies, 12th. December 1849,	33

Wellington, 1850.

Despatch to the Canterbury Association on first arriving in New Zealand, 23rd April 1850,	43
Extract from Private Journal on first arriving in New Zealand, 22nd April 1850,	49
Letter to Mr. Fox declining to become a Member of the Committee of the Settlers' Constitutional Association, August 1850,	62
Speech at a Meeting of the Settlers' Constitutional Association at Wellington, 15th November 1860,	63
Letter to the "Wellington Independent" on the resolutions passed at that Meeting, 23rd August 1850,	68
Letter to D. Munro, Esq., of Nelson, on the subject of Nominees in the Legislative Council, 2nd October 1850,	69

Lytelton, 1851-52.

Speech at the first Public Meeting held at Lyttelton on the subject of erecting the Canterbury Settlement into a separate Province, 14th August 1851,	72
Speech at a Public Meeting of Members of the Church of England at Christchurch upon the establishment of Church Government, 15th March 1852,	89
Inaugural Address to the Lyttelton Colonists' Society at its First Meeting, 30th June 1852,	103
Speech on declining to accept the office of Superintendent of Canterbury, 10th November 1852,	119
Lecture on the New Zealand Constitution Act, 1st Dec. 1852,	123
Farewell Address on leaving New Zealand, December 10, 1852	166

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Despatches.

Letter to the Council of the Land Purchasers' Society on the subject of the relations between the Agent of the Canterbury Association and the Society, and upon other matters connected with the Settlement, 15th Dec. 1858,	180
Despatch to the Canterbury Association on making Christchurch the Capital—The appointment of Colonists to Offices of Government—the Franchise. 18th January 1851,	186
To the Same: On the subject of Pasturage, 24th Jan. 1851,	191
To the Same: On undertaking Mercantile Speculations on the part of the Association, 28th February 1851,	192
To the same: On the Transference of the Powers of the Association to the Colonists, 18th March 1851,	193
To the Same: Requesting the Association to accept his Resignation should they be unable to transfer their governing powers to the Colony, 3rd June 1851,	203
To the Same: On the Pasturage Regulations—Permanent Investments for Clergy, 4th June 1851,	205
To the Same: On Sir George Grey's Bill for the Constitution of Provinces—Sending out Persons unfit for Colonial Life—Stock Farming, July 1851,	207
To the Same: On the Maintenance of the Clergy, 5th April 1851,	210
To the Same: On the Plans of the Association in Ecclesiastical and Educational Affairs, 5th Sept. 1851,	212
To the Same: On the Tranference of the Land Fund to a Local Legislature, 16th Sept. 1851,	213
To the Same: On the Pasturage Regulations, 1st Oct. 1851,	214
To the Same: On the Discontent of the Passengers by the "Canterbury" and the "Mid-Lothian"—Representations made to Colonists in England, 24th October 1851	216
To the Same: On laying the Colonial Accounts of the Association before the Colonists, 14th December 1851,	219
To the Same: On the Transference of the Powers of the Canterbury Association to the Colonists, 23rd Dec. 1851,	220
To the Same: On the same Subject, 23rd January 1852,	225
To the Editor of the "Lyttelton Times," stating the reasons for tendering his Resignation of the Agency, 29th May 1851,	231

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London, 1853 to 1861.

Speech at a Public Dinner on his Return to England, 1853,	234
Speech at a Public Dinner given to Commemorate the Adoption by the Colonists of the Debts of the Canterbury Association, 9th July 1856,	244
Speech at a Public Dinner given to the late Superintendent of Canterbury, 23rd November 1858,	250
Report of the Departmental Committee on the Military Defences of the Colonies, 24th January 1860,	255
Mr. Elliot's Memorandum appended to the Report,	278
Memorandum by Mr. Godley in reply to Mr Elliot's Memorandum,	295
Evidence given before the Committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the Military Defences of Colonies,	308