and issuing the grants for the allotments, less the roads. This must now be delayed pending the forthcoming contest with the natives, which threatens a return to the old state of things. Those Ngatiruanui scoundrels are itching for a fight; and an advance party has already arrived at Katatori's pa. Katatori is known to have written to the South for aid, and was the first to resume hostilities, after a long truce, (from which much was expected), by firing upon the Hinia natives whilst they were cultivating land between the two pas. You cannot ride along the Devon road now without seeing natives hurrying to the pa; and mounted messengers, with guns in their hands. Fortunately for us, we are safe; the Government having taken the necessary measures for that. We who called for troops, until we got them, may well congratulate ourselves for having done so; for the end of the quarrel, no one has been able to forsee. There is a talk of some Southern vessels intending to arrive by the beach, which would at once oppose us to them. I do not believe they would attempt it,