Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., G.C.B., etc. _The Hon. the Native Minister to Tawhiao_ (Translation) WELLINGTON, _May 6, 1886_. FRIEND TAWHIAO--I have been requested by His Excellency the Governor to transmit for your information copy of a despatch he has received from the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies in reference to a letter from yourself. Enough.--From your loving friend, JOHN BALLANCE. Enclosure.--Despatch No. 7, of the 2nd February 1886. COPY OF RESOLUTIONS The Resolutions herein written were confirmed by the chiefs and _hapus_ assembled at Whatiwhatihoe on this 4th day of April, in the year 1886. 1. That the Treaty of Waitangi shall continue in force, by which the authority (_mana_) of the chiefs of the Maori people was assured to them, and which also confirms and guarantees Maori people the full, exclusive, and undisturbed possession and control of their lands, and declares that the Maori people shall be maintained in their rights. 2. That the powers conferred by the Act of the year 1852 should be maintained--viz. that a council or councils should be set up, and invested with power and full authority, and that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to authorise such councils. 3. That the Maori people of Ao-tea-roa (New Zealand) shall act together under the law above mentioned. 4. That the Maori committees, authorised by the laws above referred to, shall be zealous in the performance of their duties. 5. That no wrong proceedings or operations of the Government towards the Maori people shall be sanctioned. 6. That the Native Land Courts Act should be repealed, and that it be left to the Maoris themselves to adjudicate on their own lands. 7. That this _runanga_ (council) shall persist in its efforts to have the directions given by the Government of the Queen to the Government of New Zealand carried out--viz. that the rights and interests of the Maori people shall be guarded and respected. (This resolution was unanimously carried by the _runanga_: "Although the Government of England has nothing to do with the affairs of New Zealand, still the Government of the Queen will instruct the Government of New Zealand to devise some measures whereby justice may be done to the Maori people and their interests promoted, and that the Governor should be questioned concerning these instructions from England.") 8. That the chiefs attending this meeting be deputed to put the question to the Governor. 9. That each tribe should subscribe money for the purchase of a press to print for circulation reports of what are done and said by the Maori people. 10. That power be given to each committee to deal with lands in its own district. These are the Resolutions that were carried.