respect of any agency of his was necessary for me or any of your friends. At the same time there is no doubt that he did talk at Wanganui as if he had you in his power and openly said you did not dare to remove him from office. The result proved how little truth there was in the boast. As regards the cases which have come to light of his pocketing Govt, money, and defrauding natives and others of it, while he contrived to get them to sign receipts for what they never had, which I understand is the substance of charges made on affidavit