since 1857. I doubt not that arms have been sold illegally in great numbers, but why did not his police interfere, and prevent it? Nine guns only have been sold by licence in Wellington, since 1857; and thirty-four only in Whanganui; making a total for the Province of 43, since 1857. You remember the reasons for admitting gunpowder, viz, - that those natives who were least friendly were all armed, while our friends were neither protected or armed. That smuggling was carried on to an immense extent, in spite of us, and that prosecutions signally failed, particularly in the