Napier from Poverty Bay. But the future still looms darkly upon us. A few months, doubtless, will unveil our prospects - at least, so far as to determine whether we shall be left the option between submission to our fate, or a war of extermination. I am sanguine still that the councils of the natives will remain so far divided, as to be our protection. But surely the Colony must have a permanent bush-ranging force available for service at any posts of threatened danger, instead of a hasty levy of a few hundred