fires - I have the natives on one side of me and the Government on the other. I hope to get off with a whole skin. I was extremely vexed to find this in the estimate of money I required to settle up to the 5th. of March there was an item of nearly £800 omitted. I quite expect to get a good scolding from you about it. Not that the Government will be the losers by the omission but it must cause disappointment. I have made a very great noise about it because it has arisen entirely from