disappointed that I have not come to pay them for the land. Pehi Niroa regretted very much taking any part in the late fights, and said he should not have done so, only for some slights of the Putiki people respecting him. ''Why were you not here to stop us?'' was his reply to me, when I gave him a lecture, and told him I could not shake hands with a man who took up arms against my country people, after his profession of friendship to me when I was last here. He said it was true - ''but do not scold me more, for I am ashamed of my own conduct.'' Tahaua proposes to accompany me to Wellington. Talked with the Putiki natives about the land. Dined at 7 p.m.