These proposals were favourably received by the numerous bodies of natives returning to Taranaki; although a great portion of them, from the position of the lands originally claimed by them - independent of their being distinct tribes from the Ngatiawa - have not the most distant connection with the Waitara. It was therefore obvious that these natives, especially those of the Ngatiruanui and Taranaki tribes, whose district lies between Wanganui and New Plymouth, could have no other object in passing their own lands to join Wm. King, than that of assisting him in preventing the Europeans from occupying any part of the Waitara; as the Wherowhero, on his late visit, assured them all they had nothing to fear from their former enemies, the Waikatos; and that he should see Taonui, the Chief of Mokau, to persuade him against molesting them. In these assurances, the Ngatiawas appear to have every confidence. The only parties who anticipate any disturbance in asserting their original claims are two small sections of the Ngatimutanga and Ngatitaiuia tribes, whose land extends from about 14 miles North of Waitara to Mokau, and is at present possessed by the natives of that river, who are a branch of the Waikato tribes. The unusually sulky manner exhibited by William King, together with the confidence with which he was inspired, from swaying such a numerous body of natives as from