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No. 88.
Proclamation of Amnesty to
the Rebel Natives.—25th October, 1864.
A
Proclamation.
By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.
The Governor having been authorized to extend, upon certain conditions, Her Majesty's clemency to those tribes who have engaged in the present unhappy rebellion: Now., therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and proclaim that I will, in Her Majesty's name, and on her behalf, grant a pardon to all such persons implicated in the rebellion as may come in on or before the tenth day of December next, take the oath of allegiance, and make the cession of such territory as may in each instance be fixed by the Governor and the Lieutenant-General Commanding Her Majesty's forces in New Zealand. All those persons who have been engaged in the rebellion who may desire to return within any part of the ceded territory, or within the limits of any European settlement, will be required to deliver up any arms or ammunition in their possession.
The pardon promised in this Proclamation will not be extended to any persons who may have been engaged in the murders of—Samuel Shaw, Samuel Ford, Robert Passmore, Parker, Pote, Dr. Hope, Lieutenant Tragett, and soldiers (4th May, 1863); Robert Patterson, Michael Meredith, Frederick Richard Meredith, William Cory Scott, Robert Watson, Hugh McLean, Sylvester Calvert, Charles Cooper, William John Jackson, Margaret Fahey, Job Hamlin, Richard Trust, Nicholas Trust, James Droomgould, Henry Crann, Hugh Corbyn Harris, Sarten, John Hurford, Gaffney (an Artilleryman), Richard Brown, Ephraim Coad, William Cutfield King, John Hawkin.
Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. G. Grey.
By His Excellency's command.
G. Grey
God save the Queen!
Panuitanga
Na Ta Hori Kerei, Kawana o Nui Tirani, &c.
No te mea, kua tukua mai he mana kia Te Kawana kia whakaputaina atu e ia te whakaaro tohu o Te Kuini, i runga i etahi tikanga, ki nga iwi kua uru nei ki roto ki tenei whawhai whakapouri ngakau.
Na, ko ahau ko Ta Hori Kerei, Kawana o Nui Tirani, ka whakaputa, ka panui nei, i tenei ritenga. Ka murua katoatia e au, i runga i te ingoa o Te Kuini nga he o nga tangata katoa kua uru ki roto ki tenei whawhai, nga tangata e haere mai i roto i nga ra e takoto ake nei, tae noa ki te tekau o nga ra o Tihema, 1864, a ka oati i te Ki Tuturu, ka ruku raai hoki i tetahi whenua ki a Te Kuini. Ma Te Kawana raua ko Te Tianara e whakarite ki ia tangata, ki ia hapu, te nui o te wahi e tukua mai e ratou.
Na, ko nga tangata katoa kua uru ki roto ki tenei whawhai, a kua hiahia kia hoki mai ano ki roto ki nga rohe o te wahi kua tukua mai ki a Te Kuini noho ai, ki roto ranei ki nga rohe o nga kainga pakeha, me tuku mai ratou i nga pu, i nga paura, i nga patu katoa e mau ana i a ratou.
Na, ko te tikanga murunga he kua whakaaetia nei i roto i tenei Panuitanga, ekore e tau ki runga ki nga tangata i uru ki te kohurutanga o enei pakeha e mau nei o ratou ingoa i roto i te pukapuka nei. [Same names as before.—Ed.]
He mea tuku atu i raro i toku ringa i te Wharo o Te Kawana, i Akarana, he mea whakaputa atu i raro i te Hiri, o te Koroni o Nui Tirani i tenei rua tekau ma rima o nga ra o Oketopa, i te tau o to tatou Ariki kotahi mano e waru rau e ono tekau ma wha.
Na Te Kawana i mea.
G. Grey.
E te Atua tohungia Te Kuini!