for the avowed purpose of using even means if necessary to prevent any further sale of lands to the Europeans, may we not expect that if that league is not put down, their success will embolden them to take another adverse step, and attempt to dispossess us of what we now hold; thus bringing on that war of races; which the present opportunity if rightly directed may enable us to prevent. I will now give you my views of the course which appears to me may be taken. Wirimu Kingi having falsified his promise to the Governor by taking part with Katatori so soon as His Excellency left this Settlement, and having in conjunction with Katatori brought up the Ngatiruanuis, should be got rid of. As the Waikatos have already received payment for the land, and virtually given up the possession of it to the Puketapus, they cannot be treated with as owners; but as they have never put us in possession and still assert their rights as conquerors I think they might successfully be called on to settle this matter by removing those turbulent Chiefs together with some of the ringleaders in the massacre of Rawiri and his people; and thus put us in possession of the land: the portion of Puketapus remaining friendly to us receiving payment for the land in the same manner, and at the same rate as though no disturbance had taken place: the Waikatos receiving a payment for their time and trouble in coming down to effect this purpose. I would allow the same privilege to the friendly Natives in the repurchase of land as that which was given at the time of the purchase of the Hua and Waiwakaiho blocks. The league too must be broken up, and as a large number of the Ngatiraanuis have been the most active in forming and extending it I think if possible they should be made to share in the punishment. Surely such a consummation cannot be weighed by any money valuation, when we reflect on the great good that would accrue to the natives from breaking up their present mode of herding together, and locating them on seperate and individual holdings, where the labours of the Missionary and the Schoolmaster might be brought into salutary and useful exercise; where the native woman would have a better chance of taking her proper place in her family, and be brought to exercise that humanizing influence without which our best plans for raising the social state of the Maori race will prove unavailing. We