in order that you may judge of the right and the wrong. I wrote as usual by the O. mail which left last Monday for the South and shall be looking out for a letter from you next Saturday. Cap. King paid the natives as usual for last quarter owing to the question of "Assessors" not having been arranged - on this subject I shall be glad to receive information. It is reported at Auckland that the Chief's successor is on his way out and that he (Sir George) is destined for the Cape, a strange place to send him if true. The wind is coming from the North West and I fear the barque will go to sea - what a bother it