is at all compatible with safety, at this juncture. The permission of the Government to place 50 men, according to letter dated Nov. 30th., from your Honor to self, on pay for Garrison duties, is exceeded very considerably, and in a way which by no means meets my approval. When I applied for a retention of a of the Mohaka people, Major Lambert refused. They are now retained, whilst a number of men who have done their work faithfully for the past fortnight, are not in receipt of any pay at all. I am extremely desirous of not creating any jealousies amongst the several tribes; and I believed that the unemployment of the women I suggested, duly selected, would have decidedly beneficial effects; that they would be a much more easily dealt with force; one which would supply useful information of the feelings of the several tribes; and one which might be depended on, if required, to act at any moment against any particular division of the Wairoa natives, and one over which the Government would have more especially complete control and influence from the very fact if its members not all belonging to the people. Tamihana, Tona, and others, have applied for mounted men to be kept running between Te Wairoa and Turanga, as a means of communication with the North.