matter of life and death that a change should take place that will restore the confidence of both Europeans and natives. The Stafford Ministry is reduced to great extremities when it can only get such supporters in a community as ex parson Colenso, a dismissed officer of volunteers and a vain silly man like Lord Henry Russell actually at a meeting attended by 4 or 500 people last night only 6 hands were held up against resolutions condemnatory of Stafford and those hangers on for whatever they could get