Te Hua 14 Jan. 1846. Sir, I had the pleasure of personally informing you of my intention of making an excursion to the district of Ngatimaru and have now to inform you that having yesterday in company with Mr. Chas. Nairn proceeded to Waitara on my way thither, we have been compelled to return in consequence of the road to the interior having been tapued by the chieftains of Waitara. The tapu of course originated in a dispute about a female - a woman named Coffin or Kawena having remained at Ngatimaru