''Clyde'' April 23rd 69 Dear Sir, I conclude that you have been kept fully advised of every thing that has transpired here during the last three weeks. I wrote as often as I could find time to do so to Mr. Fannin requesting him to furnish you with any items of importance contained in my letters. I must not conceal from you that I am extremely disheartened at the apathy and listlessness displayed by the authorities in the face of a great opportunity. I am certain that had anything like vigourous action characterised the movements of the gentlemen whose special business it was to act, that ''Kooti'' must have experienced a fatal reverse in his attack on ''Mohaka''. As late as 8 o'clock on Sunday morning when I myself wrote from ''Mohaka'' to Capt. Spiller and Deighton to render me assistance, there was abundant time and scope for decisive action. Te Kooti's retreat could have been prevented and any zeal on the part of Col. Lambert would have brought his Force from Napier into action by 12 o'clock on Monday. You already know how the matter eventuated - I do not hesitate to assert that we saved the lower Pa at 'Mohaka' from being captured and that nothing but want of support which could have been easily and safely rendered obliged me to retreat from the excellent position I held; you know all this already however and I will not again refer to it altho I feel the matter very bitterly. Instead of the past the future demands