Ife seems to havo beeii an axiom at the Co lonial office that so long as there ara native difficulties in Now Zealand Sic George Grey must remain Governor. The opinion of many of the old Colonists i* that so lonjjas he remains Governor them will be native difficulties. He has never acted in native affairs on any principle, but trusted solely to tact, diplomacy, and per sonal influence. [During his Brat administra tion these sufficed to enable him to manago the natives, but before he returned to thor Colony in 18<E1 the temper of the native* was elianged ; he found lib jwraonal in fluence entirely gone, airi no man has ever been regarded with more dislike and suspicion ty the natives, as a body, thart he has been since that period. HoY little he understood the problem he was sent to solve, and how little qualified he was ta grapplo with its diflicult'ca, has been, proved by almost every miccessive step ho has taken, and at this moment he appears to have no more nettled principles of na tive Government than he ever had. So long as ho remains in the Colony us Go vernor, ho will prove, in my humbles opinion, the greatest impediment to tlio adjustment of tho " native difficulty.M

I cannot conclude without expressing my Batiufaction as a colonist at "the hand some and candid retractation by Lord Car narvon of tho very undeserved imputa tions which ho had. hazarded ngaiiiHi tho colonial forces on one occasion while ha w;w Secretary of State for the Colonies. The.Colonists havo on more than ono oc casion had to smart >inder similar impu tations made in high oOicial <|iiurh;rs and in Parliament. In t!>o particular in stances referred to, they were ;<enerally withdrawn on receipt of belter informa tion ; but it leaves tho impression <>n tho mind of the Colonists, mieh to bo uu plorcd, that the people at Home are ready to believe anything bad of them. Not withstanding many slanderous statements, which havo been circulated on high, and. of Urn npparcnty respectable, authority, I am convinced that neither tho Colonial. Government nor Colonial forces deservo anything but approbation at the hands of their fellow-countrymen at Home for their conduct (hiring tho very trying period at tho history of the Colony, which i» now, I trust, fast drawing to a cloao. 