freight to Whakatane. I hope to be able to travel inland a little and will sound the exact state of Arawa feeling in the event of its being necessary to operate on the Waikato. The public are becoming outrageous and the unemployed and loafing people of Waikato ask "What is the Govt. about" and these are the very men who in the event of losses and trouble will turn upon the Govt. and charge them with precipitancy and want of forethought. I most earnestly hope that there will be no fighting but if we are forced into it I only hope it will be done thoroughly. I shall send Mair to Auckland as soon as the Elections are over, he is greatly needed in the Waikato. I do not know what they are about - the KatiKati mail has been again stopped by Tukukino and Hohepa Te Rauhini. Puckey has made some arrangement with Wi Hopihoua to take the mail over the Kati, and from