inland. The bold front shewn here had more to do with this than their God. I was much annoyed and surprised this morning on meeting Lock to be accused as circulating a report that the friendly natives were near, or about to fight at Wairoa that in consequence of such report some Ahuriri natives came up here to try and make peace between them. I told you about Rapu's people having loaded their guns and gave as my opinion that it was a matter of "bounce" but you may remember that