choose privately to keep Sir G. Grey in mind of the existence of Napier and of a large native population on the East Coast. The regular mail goes tomorrow to Auckland and I am writing by the "Star" to give you an opportunity of putting in your word. What do you think about putting Turanga under the New Zealand Settlement Act. The natives won't help Biggs with a reasonable proposal or accept one from him. We shall have immense difficulty in working the E.C.L.I. act in fact of their opposition, and I fear shall look very foolish in