fresh provisions of potatoes, if he lands. After my return I found the Wairoa canoes waiting for me at Ahuriri. Wrote by them to Rev. J. Hamlin, and sat up writing for Taranaki the greater part of the night, until all my official and private letters to the Sergeant of Police, Capt. King, and others, including C. Campbell;oJ. Wicksteed; W. Halse; W. Black; Mr. Webster; Major Wyatt; Rev. R. Taylor; Hori Kingi; Kawatene, ferryman; Poaha, Patea; Wiremu Kingi; Te Umuroa; Paora Kukutae; Ihaia; Waitara; Kaimokupune, Manawatu; Honi Ngamotu; Poharama; Mr. Sharland. It is a great satisfaction to go to bed on Saturday night, with the reflection that a week's duty has been well-attended to; and that my Wellington, English, and Taranaki correspondence is finished up; also that the land negotiations are progressing as well as I can wish, and as far as I can discern, my efforts proving successful. Spent the day quietly. Read portion of Hall's Lectures, and his able Sermon on infidelity; showing that even a superstitious zeal, which, according to Fabricus, had so long upheld the fabric of the Roman constitution, and the integrity of its public