With all these conflicting elements the position is not satisfactory and I would suggest that the sooner you can get to Wanganui so as to be within reach of the frontier, the better. You will be better able then to judge for yourself and to interfere with effect if necessary; and the negociations with the Wanganui's respecting lands etc. might go on at same time. The summer is slipping over. I hear the Kakariki natives are still bent on stopping the Railway Survey a number of them were out yesterday looking for the Surveyors, intending to