for a fraternal feeling to exist between the two powers. She is still shivering from the effects, and will proably undergo another convulsion, more calamitous than the last. To return, - the majority of our discharged soldiers, as far as I can see, conduct themselves in a very satisfactory manner; and it is to be regretted they have not fallen in with more general steady employment. I hear some talk of returning to Whanganui, not because they cannot get work, but because they cannot get lodgings. The fact is, some of their own people have promulgated a Statement to the effect that none but the worst characters are discharged from the Regiment. If true, no one will blame our settlers for using every precaution; but if false, a great wrong has been inflicted on a class of men who merit better treatment. You will remember the Agreement with Black and some Puketapu natives, which you drew up about 2 years ago - Well, after incessant dunning, through Rawiri, (I am sorry to say his eyes are bad again), and Halcopa, about a dozen of them came