up in their boundaries they were to give information when Govt. would send a force in to protect them and pursue Kooti. I got a reply at first from Fox approving what I proposed, and next day I received a very silly Telegram from Bell sent on by Gisborne - the wording was something like this "I absolutely object to the proposal" etc.etc. and wound up with an opinion, that it was a trap of the Urewera - I wont bother you with the correspondence but it wound up with Bell sending a message to me asking me not to be annoyed at what he had said and admitting he was not posted up in Urewera affairs - there it ends - but I was very vexed when I got it, particularly as Sewell and Gisborne endorsed what Bell said, neither one or the other having the least idea of the relations with the Urewera or what had been done with them by you - the Bay of Plenty - and me from here. I sent a very quiet but firm reply to Bell's Telegram and the answer was the decision must rest in hands. I shall not have time to write officially about it, so will tell you here what I have done - (I have since sent officially correspondence on this J.D.O.)