and demands about as much as all the others have got; and it is difficult to deal with him. I faney your private matters want your at-tention badly. About Mangateretere everything is in statu quo. Sutton has paid heavily for what he has got; and Master Karaitiana declines to do anything, and so hangs up the whole affair. Karaitaiana was talking to me the other day about sub-division of Native Lands, and I referred to Mangateretere, - when he said, - "that big-bellied man (meaning Sutton) is entirely in my hands. I am playing with him like a eat plays with a mouse." At any rate there is no possibility of doing anything in that matter at present. Looke tells me Wilson is now working with Sutton in that business, and with a view of injuring you. He told Looke he had the satisfaction of knowing he had assisted to sweet you in that matter, and meant to do a great deal more yet. I never heard anything like the vicious hostility of that man, and the clique he works with. Time seems to make no difference; if anything, it makes