(2.) Address of the Inhabitants of Whanganui.
Expressing Approval of Governor's Policy.

To His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand.

We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Whanganui and district, desire to express our warm approval of the policy pursued by your Excellency in the Native disturbances existing in Taranaki. We regard the grounds on which your Excellency has taken up arms to be just and necessary, and respectfully assure your Excellency of our cordial support (should we be called upon) to measures calculated, by a just and firm determination, to convey a lesson to the disaffected, which may speedily end present and prevent future outbreaks of the Native population of these Islands.