be a very fine road indeed, if I get that amount, and the Constabulary labour. I don't write officially about the useless state of the Constabulary, because I don't eare to do so; but they really require working up, and if you tell me to do it, I shall very soon make a change, or ask for other Officers, as I know the whole diffi-culty lies there. In the case of the Seventy-Mile Bush, I see no objection to felling the Bush and forming a road on the line that is to be laid out for a rail-road. If we get no rail-road, at least we shall have a road; and I should like to be told how much will be avail-able for it, so that I may arrange to start work so soon as Weber gets the line laid out. He is busy with the survey of the lines from here to Takapan, and is working away at it. It is necessary to have trial lines of the different routes before making the actual survey; and that is what he is now doing. My opinion is the line from Napier Spit to Paki Paki will be too costly, and that the line must go to Waitangi, and thenee to Paki Paki, Weber says the difference in cost would be near £40,000, and that the line by Waitangi and Pakowhai will be very easy and cheap.