with them for claims which had been so long agitated and disputed by Rangihaeata, and the powerful Ngatiraukawa tribe. It has also placed the Ngatiraukawas in a position to protect, rather than aid in molesting settlers at Rangitikei; and has been the means of breaking through a combination on their part, and several other tribes in correspondence with them; who resolved, embodying their resolutions in a written document drawn up at their Public Meetings, to make a stand against the further acquisition of land by the Europeans, excepting by way of annual lease for cattle grazings. This purchase once undertaken, and persevered in, by the