they would be allowed to go or not, and stationed a man on the beach to take charge of them in the event of their being brought ashore --- I trust however they have been safely received and will take particular care that no inconvenience or annoyance shall again arise on so simple a point as occasioned this explanation. Mr. Cooper and my brother left for Mokau on the 1st inst. and have not yet returned, but I hear the natives there desire to sell by instalments