he loved his own country and people; but then did not advocate any aggressive movements. The Tribe to which Heke belongs, had killed many of his friends, which he would not now retaliate, but allow them to fight their own battles. At a future period would hold a public consultation with the Waikatos, and other tribes, respecting their dead relatives. He then entered into a long disquisition on the strength of the natives, and fully displayed the martial bearing of a New Zealand Chief, when declaiming on warlike operations; his deportment displaying both dignity and determination, which could not fail having an effect on all he might address. With a powerful voice he thus communed, - "The New Zealanders are all a Chieftain race. They will not be subdued by Europeans. From their infancy they have been skilled in war. Heke's opinion was that the flag-staff was intended to enslave the natives, and deprive them of their lands; that he had been told so by an American trader whom he named Te Hu; and also by the Rev. W. Williams;" which I told him would have been inconsistent with that gentlemen; but he still persisted that he had done so. He said that Mokon or Rangiheta was also ready to create