discovered to be ordinary mean mortals, less than the most miserable penny a liner making extracts for the New Zealander Examiner, the public admiration for the embassy sunk to that zero of respect which results from a ridiculous attitude. In like manner, when the Times published its Galle telegram saying that Kooti was done for and suing for peace the least that our friends expected was that we should be able to say if the news was true: and it has been very bitter for us to be obliged to say to Lord Carnarvon, and men like him, who are devoting time of a value infinitely great to them during Parliament, that we were entirely ignorant whether there was any foundation or if any what, for the Times telegram. But it is no use complaining now: you wont remedy our first disgraces by any amendment hereafter. And now what on earth are we to do. We have no power to do anything real about Emigration, to the immense disappointment of every one. No one will treat with us on the chances of the Assembly next session; and we shall not be able to send you any suggestions worth anything, worth I mean the whole of the Assembly seriously to entertain. We shall gather information, and may perhaps do more, because so far as we have already gone we have really never had a moment to give to the subject, and when we go into it these possibly may shine out some light: but can you give us any power? I think we might just as well have staid at home after all. The Commission will cost a good deal of money without having done any good, and I see from the Times Correspondent's letter that already an outcry has been raised about our having come at all. In one sense the favourable news from the Colony by the last two on these mails, and especially this last telegram about Te Kooti, have been very bad for us: the tendency to get rid of a disagreeable and