are willing, --- one of his own natives affords him speedy and complete redress (quite in accordance with natural impulses all over the world), by slaying the offender in hot blood, the Government does its best to make an enemy of him for the future, by degrading him in the eyes of the natives. Nothing can be more inconsistent, or short-sighted. Ihaia did not kill Rimene, nor is it known, beyond report that he gave orders to that effect. If he deserved to be struck off, why not adopt the native mode of deliberating