theme of interest with the Natives and the mode in which that district was paid for by the Officers of the New Zealand Company was openly ridiculed by such men as Katatore for to do justice to some of the leading Natives of that period. I must say that from the very first settling of that district by Europeans, they, the Chiefs predicted that a time would certainly come when the real owners of the soil would return from North and South to reoccupy Taranaki. The fear of Te Pakaru and his tribe coming from Kawhia and occupying Taranaki, or the North bank of Waitara caused the resident Natives to acquiesce in the survey and to live on general good terms with their neighbours; and settlement progressed favorably as a rule until the Wairau Massacre, where the Natives who were continually coming from the North emancipated from slavery and from the South and made a formal stand against a large party of the New Zealand Company's work men, who were forming a road on the Banks of the Waitara and compelled the labourers to withdraw to New Plymouth. Other demonstrations of rapacity were made with the view of re-establishing their