opportunity of advising Heuheu to peace, and Mr. Taylor pointed out the evil consequences of war, the loss of life etc; He replied that a grandson of Turoa's had been to him, but had not told him a word of his peaceable intentions; that he wished he had known it sooner, and if Turoa had expressed himself to him when he put the question twice to him at Wanganui, to be friendly to the Europeans, peace would long ere now have been permanently proclaimed, as far as he was concerned. But as regarded the Pakehas at Wanganui, they need not be alarmed, he would say that they would be safe