present movement. Old Hakiki in answer, said that ''no man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.'' If, he said, the King's power be established in this island, the Queen's rule must cease; if the Queen stand, the King must fall. The two powers would no doubt, come into collision. Their lands were their own and they intended to keep them. He would tell the King that the only lands he would get from them were their Maungatautari possessions, and he thought they were quite sufficient. Old Matenga spoke much to the same effect. Addressing Wi Tako, he said; '' have experienced the oppression of the whites; have not. Let us try them before we decide against them.'' Wi Tako said they were at perfect liberty of course to choose