belligerents have been doing. Report says that His Excellency has taken several of the discontented (not meaning thereby wickedly disposed) chiefs. When and how things will get settled with the Government, so-called, in New Zealand, our grand-children may perhaps be enabled to tell. Most of us Most of us here care very little about it. John Bull has some millions in store to waste foolishly here yet. Our Thames Natives are as careless about the Queen and her followers, , as when you were here. In haste, my dear McLean, Yours very truly. W.E. Cormack. Brown and Martin they say will return.