really useful work - As for the old Governor I am much amused at what I hear about him - I gathered from Locke that he considered, the state of things he found at Taupo was due to his going there - And now he seems to think if he went 60 Waikato the native difficulty would be at an end. I hear that he deplores being subject to Ministerial control and appeals to the results of his Taupo trip as evidence of what he could do if you wd. leave him to himself. He told Locke among other things - that you had a fair knowledge of what was going on along the Coast but hadnt anything like his (Governors) knowledge of the state of the interior - What an ass the man must be -However he