Taranaki 4 February 1850 Friend, Potatau, Greetings to you and the family. Friend, I have just arrived at this place, and by the time I arrived, the Wikitoria had already berthed bringing Lady Grey, my wife. We all arrived safely, I by the buggy[?], my wife by sea. We like this place at Taranaki, it's a place which I have traversed and with the Pakeha guests who have accompanied me from Auckland. So much for this. This also I have to say to you. I was disappointed on my arrival at Waipa to hear from your younger brother that you are fighting over the land at Maungaroa. Son, bring that to an end. [Bottom of page] To Te Wherowhero Potatau Stop it. Enough, don't let that be your practice these days. I will not agree, nor would I agree hereafter, for this land to be bought if people living peacefully on it were to be driven off. However, if there is peaceful conduct, then the Pakeha land agent will take heed of the custom of those parts and of the people whose land it is, of each tribal group, and for whom there would be payment for the land. Give consideration to these conditions, Potatau, they are important conditions because they will benefit the people, and your tribe also. That is all have to say. From your good friend, Sg'd G.Grey, Governor in Chief