I wrote you before about Constabulary arrangements and I see so much going wrong that I must write again. The whole force of tried men will disappear if you do not mind what you are about. It appears there is a regulation under which any Constabulary man can give 3 months notice and leave and I hear from the officers that the men are giving notice in large numbers and that the men who are going are their best men -- This regulation works also in this way -- if a man is found fault with, he gives notice at once. The result of this is that the good officers are losing all interest in their work and there is no doubt the whole concern is going to the bad -- I have made enquiry as to Whitmore's statement respecting men being taken on under the new system who had been turned out under the old and find that altho he made the most of it yet there is some truth in it. However I do not want to meddle with the Constabulary further than to urge you to see into the points I have named -- it is a serious thing to know that we are losing many of the few trained men we have and we have seen before the difficulty of replacing them at short notice. Depend upon it you must have the two separate -- the fighting force must be distinct from the peeler and the sooner you have it understood the better. The whole thing