[Translation.]
to the General Assembly of New Zealand, Wellington.
Otaki,
16th August, 1865.
Friends, Salutations,—
Those matters which you arranged that we should decide have been decided.
- 1. That the Government do not appoint any Maori men to sit in the House of Assembly, but rather that it be left for the Maori Tribes to select the thirty men who shall go into the Runanga of the Committee.
- 2. The power to vote, let that be left alone until that is finally arranged amongst yourselves; let that word be sent by the Council of the Governor to us, for us to perform, that is to say, for the whole people to perform or decide.