agrees with me here too - Altho' he has once in favor of the Militia which I never was - I enclose a note from him - I go to Porangahau on the 1st of June, and thence to Sutherland's this will give me an opportunity of sounding the Coast Natives; I expect to meet Wardell at Castle Point, and it might be as well to run through Wairarapa with him returning by the Coast. I should thus be able to give you news of the whole tribe - I will get two of the magistrates to do my work while I am away, which wont be