if possible reduce the feud to its proper limit. Touching this "new pa" which has been recently erected at the "Ninia" I believe more properly called the "Mura", by Ararama Karaka, aided by all the natives from Mahoetahi to Moturoa. It is situated on a rising ground about a 1/4 of a mile to the eastward of Waitaha, inland of the Devon Road and in observation of the Kaipakopako, from which it is distant about 3/4 of a mile. I am told the object in building this pa is to get possession of all the land bounded on the north by Nangoraka puta noa ki utu as payment for the slain and offer it to you --- If true this