1862 My dear McLean, The news from Auckland which our papers have extracted is very interesting. That Sir G. Grey should have settled the Kaipara difficulty I am not surprized. We had managed to suppress it for so many years that it would not have been very violent. I have heard that old Clerk (the new Commissioner) was the cause of Mattiu's breaking out. Indeed after what the Ngatiwhatuas said to me just before I came away I was surprized to hear that they had commenced the fight. The Proceedings at Coromandel are still more extraordinary. The very men who opposed me so violently for ignoring W. King (who admitted that he had no proprietory rights and whom Sir W. Martin admits not to be the Chief of the whole Tribe) purchase or lease land in the teeth of a chief Te Hira whose claims nobody disputes!! Where is Sir W. Martin? Where is the cursing Archdeacon and where the great Forsaith? Will no one enter the lists? I fear Sir G. Grey is too strong for them. They cannot hope to pitch into him with