At the trial at Manawatu though he had signed the Deed of sale he appeared as one of the principal Witnesses against us, and tried to shuffle out of the fact of having signed, tolling a barefaced falsehood about it, which he was convicted of out of his own mouth. In treating with the dissentients remember that all their story has been twice sifted to the bottom, and verdict twice given against them. Would it not be well also to hear what the Ngatiapas and Rangitane's have to say. I suppose you will see them when you come up. We cannot consent to re open the decision of the Court on the point of ownership, if we had the power, which we have not - the question must be limited to that put in Sewells letter to Travers. The dissentients ought to state what they want. The only statements at all definite I have heard on that point was from old Parakaia, who said at a meeting here "The Court has decided. Let that