visitations, how much we love and cleave to thee; but how deeply we feel the many changes it becomes our lot to encounter in the parting of friends from the same part of the world, in whose prosperity and welfare we are interested. Truly the fate of the Wanganui settlers is a most serious one. They have reason to be thankful that the natives have befriended them so much, and even continue, after all their disappointment, to act more like a civilised people, than one lately emerged from a savage state. It is a strange coincidence that, at this very spot, the Karaka, in October last, I had my tent pitched, the natives round me singing a hymn and prayers to God, as we now have done; and my feelings were then very much depressed by a fear that I had lost my faithful servant William, who is still continuing as a good and faithful servant to his master, as he was then. At half past one in the morning, being clear moonlight, we pursued our journey along the beach, the tide favouring us in getting round the projected points that lay on our way. The road across the sand plains to Waitotara is difficult to find at night; but we managed to trace footsteps, and got there by six o'clock. The natives received us kindly. Had long explanations from one on religious matters; and I fear that there is still existing a portion of that destructive fanaticism that prevailed when last