to write, as it were over your head, direct to the Genl. Govt. As to this point I am sure it is needless to say anything to you - The unreserved way in which I have shown you my letters and discussed everything with you are enough to show that I never thought of slighting you in any way, and your own unreserved manner to me, is a proof that you did not think I had. However, lest anything of the kind should be apparent to others I shall address the Supt. officially to the same effect as I wrote to Auckd. and Whitmore. And now as to Ormond's proposal to sed up troops instead of calling out local forces - I have told him that I did not think this would be enough and that I still adhered to my opinion that the local forces must be made efficient - that you and I had discussed the matter in all its bearings and that you were averse to sending up 100 out of the present Napier