know how to manage Maories. On this I think you have been prejudiced by some of your Native officials who are not friends to Noake. During the whole time he has had the command, there have been no Maories in his district and the only duty he had to perform was to keep them out of it. On the few occasions when he has had to do this, he has acted I beleive with mildness though firmly. The charges which were made from Taranaki last year of Maories being turned out at the point of the Bayonet, I myself ascertained to he absolutely false. Any little difficulties