Auckland February 24, 1862 My Dear Sir I am sorry I shall not have the pleasure to see you before you go to England as I shall have left for the north before your arrival here. Should you go via Tasmania and wish for letters of introduction I can give you some to the of that country. I should have been glad to have had a chat with you on our future prospects. I think if Governor Grey establishes order, and the supremacy of Her Majesty here, without fighting more or less, he will have to boast of having done what no other man alive could do. for my part I fear we shall have to grind some of our opponents in the war mill, before all is over. I truly say I for I would it were otherwise - but it seems to me certain that the natives will never submit to those restraints which are their only chance of salvation from extinction as a people untill it has been demonstrated to them clearly that the is supported by irresistable force. Meantime, I shall in the circle of my influence do what in me lies to forward the pacific policy. I hope you will come back - by the time you can return You will be the theorists will have broken down, and the of whom you are chief will be in request. And on them the future of this country depends. I am thinking of leaving, but cannot do so for eighteen months or two years by which time I hope you will be back. Meantime I wish you health and happiness. Yours truly F. E. Maning