at Patea, busy in making his demilitarizing arrangements. I have been in full charge of the Defence Office ever since he went to Otago, and suppose I shall be forced to keep it now. I have had anothet office forced upon me lately - that of Deputy Auditor, while Knight is disporting himself at Melbourne. These distinctions are all very honoirable. it is true, and I feel proud accordingly; but they are honarary as well, and that is not quite so plesant. With respect to the papers I am sending up, it is not necessary that I should say much. They are - Locke's Report of his visit to Poverty Bay and Wairoa. a lot of Maori letters, showing a not very satisfactory state of things in respect of the Poverty Bay Commission Court; papers about G.B. Worgan, whose licence, I think, should be suspended without any delay; papers called for by you from Ngapuhi, about Kay of Waikato, and from Govt. to King Chiefs; and proclamation about Raku Raku's land, which, as at first sent up by you,