If Ministers desire it, I will of course, Forward these papers to the Secretary of State, but it appears to me a great pity to re-open a question of this nature. If the 18th. Regt, were so unpopular at Whanganui in 1865, how was it that such urgent entreaties were addressed to the Government by the people of that district in 1868, to send back there? And how was it that such bitter complaints were made of the final removal of in 1870? The fact is that the whole Colony bore its testimony to the general conduct of the Officers and men of the 18th. Regt; and at the request of Ministers, several Official Memorandums have been forwarded to me to that effect; - all in direct contradiction to the allegations of