when on her way from Wanganui in preference to proceeding to Mamaku whene resided a young native for whom she was destined. As however her brother who went to bring her back consented to the match the Waitara chiefs have dropped this cause of quarrel but have taued the three roads and talk of fighting because the brother above mentioned, Kaeapa, called Rawiri, a great chief of te Mamaku, ''upoko-poaka'' a name doubly irritating from its extreme appropriateness. After a long and ridiculous debate, in which the chieftains took care to assert their independence of Her Majesty's authority and to draw parallels between Taunum and the chief Rawiri, they consented to allow us