Saturday, Sunday and Monday week cannonading was going on against Parenga Kingi's pa. People seem to Relieve this story. All the Ngatikahungunus are in a very satisfactory state - Ngairo, Karauria Hape and one or two others in Wairarapa talk in a mischievous way hut they have no influence and are I shd. say by no means dangerous. But I don't much like the look of matters on the West Coast, and think that the Waikanae and Otaki people wd. like to have a row. Buller is a failure and does more harm than good. Wellington is very dull and stupid I have only been in town part of yesterday and today and there has been a fierce S. Easter all the time. I have not seen Mr. Strang and suppose I shall not do so as I shall be only once more in Wellington before I go home. The Maria has arrived from England. She had 2 entire horses on board, a throroughbred and a Suffolk Punch, intended for Hawke's Bay, and belonging to Mr. Gaisford, a young man at Purvis Russell's station. The thoroughbred has come out all right, but the draught horse died on