s at large. I am glad you agree to my notion of getting Whenuanui, Paerau and people down here. They are better here than at Wairoa or Mahia and old Tareha is very anxious to have them. The miserable funk sticks at the Wairoa are writing letters to the newspapers saying the Urewera are gathering there previous to a renewal of attack upon the settlement. Bringing them here will end all that and cut them off from any intercourse with Te Kooti or others disaffected at Rua Tahuna. Perhaps Te Waru may be got in through them I will see what they say. The Poverty Bay people are very noisy about your sending Ropata and his men there. Ngatiporou are not liked at Gisborne - They have full particulars of what you wrote me as to your arrangements with Ropata and they are fully talked of here. This must have come from either Ropata or Porter