helped. As to Immigration, I dont see what we can possibly do without further powers. It is a disappointment to everyone without exception, that we are not armed with any real authority, People say that the only things the Act enables us to do we cant get done, but that the act just avoids enabling us to do what could be done at once. There is a passionate movement going on here in favour of Emigration, public meetings in all directions and a monster petition to the Queen signed by more than a hundred thousand working men praying for State aid: the subject is ripe for good handling, and if we had power (not money it is not required) to make agreements we could most certainly take the ball at the ground hop and do a stroke for the Colony. It is the great misfortune of New Zealand to be always too late. We send missions home in ignorance of what we ought to get the