when I wrote it was exactly as I felt - and in truth as I feel now - I have but one object, to urge on public works and to see the Country in a position of security. No one can accuse me of any selfish ends either directly or indirectly I have no interests - I hear on all sides that the gentlemen of House of Reprs. are going to make a dead set on the Native Department - They are holding meetings and scraping together all the information they can collect which they consider will tell. There is a good deal of underhand work going on