(.) Tauranga October 1st. 1869. My dear Mr. McLean, Since I wrote to you last, I have been to Whakatane. I was invited to attend a Meeting there. The Ngatiawa, Ngatipukeko, Arawa, Ngatitai, and Ngatirangi were represented. Certain resolutions were passed which they will themselves forward to you. Maihe Tikanga, who, as you will remember, always makes himself prominent on such occasions, and generally takes extreme views, proposed that all the natives from Tikerau to Kati Kati should be made soldiers; that this was the only way to put an nd to present difficulties. He stated - for the benefit of his hearers - that the Queen had sent a large army to the Country; but they did not, or could not finish their work. Millions of money had been thrown away for no good purpose, and although the Country was still in as bad a state as before, the Troops had been removed,