an engagement took place, and resulted in one killed and 5 wounded, -- all of Ihaia's side. Ihaia himself slightly wounded in the back. The others were all Natirahiri's. Wi Turi killed. Hone Whanonga, shot through the arm at the elbow. Tipene Warihi, top of one finger shot off, and shot through the thigh. Wm. Pitt, (not of the Waiwakaiho), -- ball entered left shoulder, passed over on the surface of the right shoulder, and lodged in the fleshy part of the right side. Another shot through the thigh. The dead body was removed to the Waitara, for interment, immediately after the occurrence. They requested me to make proposals for peace, which I was too happy to do, but I am sorry to say their opponents treated it with derision. I am very sorry for Ihaia, because he has been made a tool of for others, who now would rejoice at his own destruction. Mr. Whiteley and myself have been trying to get them away to the Waitara, believing