What a serious state of affairs have come to pass in Auckland. Grey wrote to me on 7 July asking in the most urgent way for our small Detachment and I gave the order for their immediate embarkation an hour after I got his letter. The Commissary could not get transport for some days but that was not my fault. On 17 July Grey wrote again saying that Brigadier Chute had refused to send troops and he hoped I would still send them. Long before I got his second letter, however, the troops had sailed. From the imperfect accounts we receive I fear the struggle will be serious and prolonged: it seems that Teraiah and even the Ngatiwhatuahs have joined the Waikato and before long I expect to heat that every tribe in N.Z. except perhaps the Ngapuhis and some of those