should only be used for the assistance of such authorities with a view to bring offenders to justice. I believe the trials of Hoera and of Hina at New Plymouth, and of the murderers of Volkner at Auckland acted very beneficially on the Native mind. Not so the treating of the Natives at Auckland, Wellington and Chatham Island as prisoners of war - Military display I feel assured you must now see if of little or no use in New Zealand and Military supremacy to be ruinous - You will gather from what I have now written that I place all my hope for the pacification of this Colony in a determination on the part of its Legislature that Law shall be obeyed and respected by all Her Majesty's subjects here whether European or Native and that to effect this they the Legislature will bring all their powers to bear for the upholding of the majesty of law - The prerogative of mercy would then be exercised with propriety. Justice being first satisfied.