Ngatueris occupation in fact those frequent quarrels must generate very bad feelings for which the natives themselves may eventually suffer, in the meantime with a few exceptions the settlers are obliged to put up with insults and use the most humiliating forbearance on their not only towards the chiefs but to every insignificant member of their tribe or otherwise subject themselves to the loss of all their improvements and property the result of many years hard labour and toil. I must not however enlarge on these subjects at present as the purchases are progressing and I trust that all the settlers may be secured in their homesteads notwithstanding the threats of the natives and I trust that such a system will never again be allowed to gain ground in New Zealand. Taking into consideration that your Excellency has some difficulty in getting such large sums of money as the present purchases require, I must content myself at present with the thousand pounds for which I have forwarded