and through them it was preserved up to the present time. At the same time, he could not altogether suppress the warfaring propensities of other tribes; that they were at present waiting to see what Heke's end would be; that procrastinated warfare at the North caused the greatest excitement throughout the land; and that he found a difficulty in keeping the tribes around him in proper subjection; but as a token of his own disposition to both Europeans and Natives, he was sending his women and children to Wellington with mats of Kowai as presents to Rauparaha and Ngatata; and he did not wish to conceal from us that there is still a strong disposition on the part of the natives to have more fighting; that the Mission