No. 42.
[Extract from New Zealand Gazette.]
The Lieutenant-Governor directs it to be notified that the Government have recently obtained the most convincing proofs that some of the inhabitants of the Town of Auckland are still in the constant habit of selling to the Natives arms, gunpowder, and other warlike stores, thereby affording the uncivilized tribes of this country the means of carrying on wars amongst themselves, as also of destroying Her Majesty's subjects in this territory, and of overwhelming the isolated and unprotected British settlements which exist in various portions of these Islands. The Lieutenant Governor now earnestly entreats the whole of the respectable inhabitants of Auckland and its vicinity to use every exertion in their power to discountenance and put an end to such, unprincipled and disgraceful proceedings, which must entail the most frightful and distressing calamities upon their fellowcountrymen, and will certainly be viewed with horror and indignation by the whole civilized world.
By His Excellencys command.
Andrew Sinclair
Colonial
Secretary.