heathen inserted at Rangitikei. The Church natives may be estimated at about - 37 males, and 40 females. Children may be estimated in the whole tribe at about 80, making a total estimate of 242. The land possessed by the tribe is particularly adapted, from its beautiful springs, for cattle stations. Spent Sunday at Turakina. A native Wesleyan Maori teacher here gave me an account of his being under the influence of witchcraft. He says he was first visited by the God or Spirit of the Ngatiraukawas, named Rongotikitiki; after which he got unwell, as if his feet were drawn asunder from his body, and as if he was wrenched