Especially it should be known that natives alone, under myself, prevented the attack by Te Waru on Wairoa and that Natives alone relieved Mohaka - that the officer in command at Wairoa refused to move a man and reprimanded me for venturing to move the Maories without orders - that, when , the officers were desirous of doing all sorts of things but nothing came of it. Lambert has striven in every way to find some means of throwing discredit on us and to shew that nothing can be done without himself and the military. I suppose no man met such grossly unfair treatment and underhand difficulties as I have in this matter - but I stuck to it however throughout and I trust plenty of people will be found to render me justice. If you ask