Waiapu November 1865. To His Honor The Superintendent Napier, May it please your Honor, I beg most humbly and respectfully to submit to Your Honor's notice, as innentory of my most important losses during the late disturbance. Mr. Deighton directed me to seize two of my horses, which the Maoris had plundered at the Kawa Kawa. They were immediately retaken, with a threat that if further interfered with, they would shoot all the horses at Waiapu. This occurred in less than an hour after they had removed their oath of allegiance. Mr. Deighton then advised me to write to your Honor, and kindly offered himself as a reference on the subject. I beg to submit that my