New Plymouth 29th. Jany. 1872. My dear McLean, While native matters looked quiet I did not think it worth while to trouble you about one or two native matters that could afford to stand over for your arrival here; not that there are any immediate signs of mischief, but there are little strawa floating before the breeze, that I think it well to report to you, I leave Parris to report to you what he may have heard, and you can collate the two; what I hear refers to our Northern frontier, that the Ngatimaniapoto are in an uneasy state, coming to crisis from the execution of Kereopa, which has impressed them with the idea that they may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb (in reference to the White Cliff murders) - the report has come in various ways to me by Europeans, and I first