success. Sooner or later, however, I am inclined to think people will view the Waitara case more justly than they have done and not through the highly tinted spectacles which alone have been used hitherto. I hear vague rumours that Sir G. Grey accuses me of neglecting the interests of the natives generally and of not fulfilling promises made by him. Do you recollect the trouble I had in getting a pension for Hapuka because he, Sir G. G. G. had promised it and how nearly Richmond and I differed about it. If my memory serves me rightly I instructed you to fulfil all promises made by Sir G. G. or Col. Wynyard very soon after I arrived in New Zealand and I added that no promises were to be made in my name or for me but that fulfilment was to precede the promise. Now I should be very much obliged to you if you would write and send me an official memorandum (in answer to a request from me) stating distinctly wheter I did give you such instructions or not.