hostilities at Wanganui commenced. Troops and reinforcements were arriving from both parties, native and European. A town and its respectable settlers have been ruined and burnt out of house and home. The place is abandoned; except as a Military Station; and the results of our engagements have not yet, as yet, impressed the natives with any superiority of English warfare, to subdue and control them. One Chief, only, Maketu, has been shot; and a few natives; but even this has been accomplished at an inconsiderable cost to the British Crown. The result of the War, as far as it has yet proceeded, - September 25th. 1847, - is fully recorded in the public despatches; and the Memo. I have now taken is for future reference, as to the origin and cause that brought it about; which has been repeated to me by a trustworthy young native, Pehi, who was an eye-witness to some of the proceedings, and conversant with the several circumstances attending them. (Signed) Donald McLean.