from Te Kuiti - everything is profoundly quiet -They asked for the news from the south and the Runanga which Hetit gave them - The road scheme etc. old Ngapora who is the man we have to consider - listened quietly and made no remark till the next morning - when he said - ''Ka nui te taimaha o tenei korero'' - but Hetit tried to persuade him that it was inevitable and that it would not work ill to either race but a great deal of good - I do not know whether you have written to