Protectors Office, Auckland, July 16, 1844. Sir, A Considerable degree of excitement both amongst Natives and Europeans, having occurred at New Plymouth, arising chiefly from disputes about Land, it is necessary that you should proceed without delay to the district for which you have been appointed Protector I have therefore the honor to request you will leave Auckland tomorrow the 17th and hasten with all possible despatch to Taranaki. Your first and most obvious duty will be to do all in your power to allay excitement of feeling, and to preserve the peace - and as time will not permit me to enter upon any explanation of the nature of your duties in detail I shall take the earliest opportunity of forwarding to you such general