whole compensation money, and that they expected to obtain it, as he observed that the tribes up the river had been paid for their land by Mr. Edward G. Wakefield but these had received nothing and they were the more confirmed in their expectation from the fact of Mr. Spain having offered the whole compensation to ''Te Mawrai'' which he refused, but the claim of the Wangaihu tribe had never occurred to Mr. Taylor. After much persuasion Abraham the Chief of Waingaihu permitted Mr. Wills to proceed with the survey, and I left Mr. McLean with him in case any other dispute might arise, who upon his return informed me that these people would require a large payment for that portion of the land included within the block awarded by the Commissioner, which was their property. It was at this juncture that the news of the attack upon the Hutt reached Wanganui it was brought by two Natives who were sent by "Mawaku" or "Te Karomu" with a letter to "Ngapara" "Maketu" and other influential chiefs, pressing them to join him, upon enquiry I found that this was the third letter he had written to the same effect, and I procured from Mr. Nixon J.P. a copy of his first which together with a translation I transmit (Enclosure 5) the last was read by Mr. McLean who informed me that it contained an Account of recent