tribe refuse to give any thing up, and say, in future, they will not allow any mail to pass. At present my head quarters are at Waitara, things at present are quite quiet there. I have been two or three times as far as the Poutoko about some cattle and other matters. Nearly the whole of the Mataitawa, Manutai, and Pukerangiora people have gone to Ngatiruanui, they say to a huhunga, but I fancy to a runanga as well. Chas. Brown has been returned by a large majority as Superintendent