visit that place, they would find him more determined than ever; that he had no ill-will against the Europeans there. "Did I not promise you when last at Wanganui, nothing would he touched, belonging to the Missionaries, by my people on their return from Kepitl? Nor was there." Iwikau and his brother then spoke, saying - "The Government are doing the natives a deal of injury, trying to take our lands from us. I am greatly opposed to them; and Heke is right in asserting his independence, and that he was suspicious of their movements from their first arrival at the Bay of Islands, where he was when Captain Hobson landed; and was viewed with the utmost suspicion by all the Ngapuhi natives of that district; and that the jealousy and suspicion then entertained, was the natural and long-expected cause for the disasters now taking place; that many who were parties to the Waitangi Treaty had been persuaded by some of their Missionaries, whilst many councils were held amongst natives and Europeans, that placed them on their guard as to the result of their negotiations; which they then pretended would not be of a final character. He could then forsee, as well as all other discerning Chiefs, who also held their own councils, that the Government were usurping a right over they lands, Chieftainship, and property, of which they would never make a voluntary concession.