Takrei appeared very anxious that the war should be confined to the Taranaki side of the Waitera, to which I assented we were not assailed by those on the North bank. He insisted on it that we had possession of the cliffs at Mokau and had laid an ambush for the Ngaturuinuis on their return -- I told him we had no troops there but could only pacify him by giving him a pass to the Officer Commanding at Mokau, which he promises to return to me when he finds no one there. He asked my views about peace and I told him that I entirely separated King from the Taranaki and Ngaturuinui tribes.