in office but I am sorry for them. Fox has taken care by his publications to assure the Maoris that they cannot be coerced into obedience and the Duke threatens to take away the troops. Nothing therefore remains but to let Sir G. Grey do as he likes. If the Maoris do not burst with pride at feeling us so completely their inferiors in war, they will go on aggravating everybody within their reach, until they decrease and we increase to