Copy. Notes relative to disputes between Natives and Settlers. No. 1. Mr. Low, a settler near the Mongoraka, complained to me that E Kopi, E Puti, and Ngawi resident natives, had been giving him considerable annoyance by felling timber on the section he occupied; thereby endangering the destruction of his house, which stood in the vicinity of the falling trees. Also threatening if the house were not removed, it would be burnt, when burning off the timber. I immediately wrote the natives, advising them against such rash proceedings; and afterwards visited them, when I found they had completely put a stop to Mr. Low's farming operations; on the plea that they had not sold