their will and caprice, and I beg leave most respectfully to call your Excellencys attention to their present most insecure and defeneless position and would recommend if possible their speedy removal to some other settlement where their lives and property may be more readily protected. I cannot conclude this report without expressing to your Excellency my sense of the services performed by Messrs. McLean and White who notwithstanding the frequent interference of the Natives and the continued inclemency of the Weather, afforded me the most ready and cordial assistance, and laboured incessantly to effect the object of my mission. I left Wanganui on the 5th Inst. and reach Wellington on the 7th where I was delayed some time by His Honor the Superintendent, who having on this day heard of the loss of the ''Uncle Sam'' in which vessel he had sent his Despatches to your Excellency, he was consequently obliged to forward duplicates. I left Wellington on the morning of the 11th Inst. and arrived here on the 18th inst. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency's Most Obedient humble Servt., John Jermyn Symonds, Private Secretary. To: His Excellency The Governor of New Zealand