Police Barracks 17th. October 1850. Dear Sir, I am glad an opportunity offers to Wellington, enabling me to report last Tuesday's eventful proceedings, knowing how anxious you will be, when the verbal report reaches your station. Never were my eyes so completely opened about the natives before. Institutions, Hospitals, Hostelrys, allowances, kindnesses, and almost universal levity, will not change them. They are as wild and untameable as ever. The provocation was great, but the chief cause of complaint is the fact of their going into Court with the determination to plunder, unless the decision is given exactly in their favour; then turning