No proposition or even allusion has been made by me to the Natives on the subject named in the Memn. - of course it would require to be gently handled. "Tahau" is I have every reason to believe at home planting, as Puckey has been up there now some few days, his absence for any time would have been fully known by the Natives in the District. I remain, Yours faithfully H. T. Kemp