by the natives as being a more pacific one than he is generally in the habit of making. The only expressions used by him which I considered unfavourable, were insinuations that he yet relied on being better supported by a less vacillating people than his own tribe; and a remark that he would annoy the Ngatiapas, after they received payment for their land. This latter portion of his speech was after repeated by a Chief of Otaki, named Kingi Hori te Puke, and replied to by Te Ahu Karamu of Ohau; who said he would take no part in any such proceedings. I am, at present, unable to detail further particulars, as the mail carrier has arrived, and I am preparing to start to Turakina, having marked