and the natives can hardly divest themselves of the idea but while he is armed with great powers - I know also that Wilson and the party with which he is connected have a great dislike to Mair for no other reason than that he is in the way of their schemes - I know a great deal more than I like to commit to paper - Wilson is very, very bitter He told an officer of this department that ''He was going to get that fellow Mair put out of that'' - and that pressure would be brought to bear on the Government by certain parties - But for our own credit and for the sake of the Natives I wish to give them substantial proof that we are not (as Wilson says we are) ''patipati-ing them - and the sooner the question is settled the better for us - The Thames Telegraph is complete and messages were sent yesterday for the first time The letters from Young Taua te Waharoa are very violent on the Telegraph question - and the Tauranga hauhaus are opposed to the line crossing the Wairoa (Tauranga) for Katikati, they say that the King party will make it a ''casus belli'' if it should be attempted - You may