Governor Grey himself incautiously admits how little has been done (Parl. Papers, August, 1851, p. 57). But the real evidence of the narrowness of the limits to which the efforts of Government have been confined, is to be found in the repeated parade of the same scanty materials of display. The reports of four small hospitals, exhibited from quarter to quarter, a few returns of cases referred by natives to the resident magistrates, and frequent letters from natives laudatory of Governor Grey, being nearly the sum total that is to be found in the Parliamentary Papers. And even these documents, if examined, are less material than they look. Thus, in a report from the resident magistrate at Wellington, he parades the number of cases in which, as he says, natives only were parties, as proof of the esteem in which his court is held by them. On looking at the appended return, which extends over three months, we find exactly one case—Parl. Papers on Colonial Possessions, 1849, p. 435 : and in another quarter's report we find exactly two cases—Parl. Papers, August, 1851, p. 134. The letters of the natives some- page 35 times afford indications of the real quality of the material which is used to exhibit them in a favourable contrast to the Europeans. The letters of John Heke and his wife, P. P, 1851, p. 30, followed by the explanation contained in that of Pene Tani, at p. 33, are an amusing instance.