. Taranaki. 19th. July 1847. My dear Sir, Wanganui seems unfortunately destined, with its poor suffering settlers, to the fate which you seemed to forsee in the early stages of its establishment. In reading the published copies of your correspondence, as far back as 1842, with Capt. Smith,- afterwards re-addressed to Col. Wakefield,- in which you then felt assured it should not become your resting place,- some permanent re-arrangement was made with the natives; and though your opinion might have been then (from the very different state of the native population), considered problematical,- subsequent events have too fully realised and proved the solution of them. Still, I do not altogether abandon the idea that Wanganui will yet be what we should wish it,- a peaceable, flourishing English settlement; for which it possesses so many natural advantages; and though you may say that these advantages are over-rated, and that its prosperity is something very distant ....... (unfinished)