who were urging him to open Ohinemuri "Leave me alone --- Leave me even in poverty. When you come amongst us, we are nothing. We cease to have a voice in anything." We are seeking to found and gradually to build up a civilized or artificial order of things. We must not nelgect the primitive order of things out of which it must grow. We are seeking to establish a system new and strange in many ways to the people. We should draw to our aid even eld influence which can strengthen us, and make the transition as easy and natural as possible. We must therefore work through the Chiefs. But to you, Sir, I need not dwell on this as a first condition of success. The practical importance of the principle here