nd must be approved by every man who has the good of the colony at heart - I am afraid that you have not much sympathy from our own head officers in this Province - and I only trust that the House of Representatives will never place the conduct of native matters in the hands of the Provinces. I see nothing for it if it is accorded but disaster and ruin - I am greatly disappointed in Mr. Gillies - when he was elected I did hope that he was the right man in the right place. But I am afraid that the contrary is the case - He does not even take a moderately common sense view of the difficulties we have to contend against in native matters