busily engaged throwing up a pa close to his residence, assisted by Henere te Whare and his people, a circumstance that set me thinking as shewing the very close intimacy existing between them, which might probably be made use of to our advantage. A large pa has been erected at Huirangi since I was last there, capable of containing 3 or 400 hundred men -I was informed that its erection was a precautionary step against an expected visit from Taupo and Whanganui to avenge the deaths of the two men belonging to those tribes who fell at Mamaku when assisting