I send you a note of where some of my suggestions about Crown grants for natives may be found should you ever want to refer to them. Pray thank McCabe for me. He and the Nelson Examiner have defended me like true men while Williamson who wrote and spoke his sense of obligation to me a few days before I left has taken so very opposite a course. I watch the course of events in N.Z. with very great interest and wonder to myself whether all these conceptions will succeed in producing submission. I cannot help fearing that they will not for it is the nature of man to be arrogant and overbearing with those