Lyttelton times in which Weld's speech appears, an admirable one, and Harman says that Fitzgerald had not five supporters in the whole meeting. How are you getting on at Napier? I have such faith in you that I believe Hawkes Bay will get only the skirt of the storm. If they had not been jealous of you they would have had better information than the Ministry seem ever yet to have had and (though I do not believe Grey could have settled the country without such an appeal to arms as has been made) they might have been better prepared for the events at Taranaki. I consider now that Grey's appointment was most fortunate for me for if war had broken out again in my time or even in that of any other governor, every murder would have been laid at my door and the Episcopal