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as the present unsettled state of your land, keeps you in constant agitation." Heavy rain dispersed the natives. - In speaking to the Ngatiapa, who got under cover of some Whatas, said, - in my hearing, - "If it were a boundary between ourselves, we should not be stubborn about it. Koputara stream should be the boundary between us as natives, - Europeans, however, being in question, Rangitikei is decided on by us as a boundary for the Europeans." Meeting closed for the day. Food served out. - "Ngatiapa, - my friend Hunia, we are now under a new law, a law of peace. I was once in the hands of all the