Henui, 24th August, 1857. My dear Sir, Though I believe you are two or three letters in my debt I cannot at this time refrain from inflicting on you some of my notations of the late movements in the Maori political atmosphere. The storm which raged on the "sale of land" question after the death of Rawiri appears in a great measure to have subsided; and the natural result seems to have followed in leaving the parties in a more state of mind and disposed to consider dispassionately the subject of the sale of their lands to the Government. The late movement amongst the Natives to consider the propriety of electing a King or Governor of their own I look on as an important event in their history, and shews how generally they the necessity of having laws which they