in these advantages representing to them that they were not quite forgiven for previous offences, and that they should be apprehended if they came near the Settlement. This vein so much in accordance with their own revengeful customs was readily believed and caused a most unfavourable feeling which was likely to increase had these natives not been assured that such threats never originated with the European authorities, who would feel pleasure, so long as their conduct deserved it of extending to them, as to any others who visited the settlement the same impartial protection. The unfavourable state of the weather prevented many of the Waikato and Taupo people from attending so that the natives present at the meeting did not exceed fifteen hundred a much smaller number than was expected. I had some conversation with Te Mamakv respecting his claims at Wanganui, which I find by his own admission to be inconsiderable he seemed offended that as he was a great chief he did not receive two bags of money instead of one, when others received so many. I gave him to understand that as he received a considerable portion of the first payment by the New Zealand Company that the amount I awarded him was considered a full equivalent for his claim, he then expressed some dissatisfaction with Hamarema the person authorised by him to receive the money and ended the conversation by saying he was glad to have seen me hold a korero respecting his claim. I said that although he was a great chief he could not on that acct. alone be paid for land he did not claim to the exclusion of the legitimate owners. On the 18th I returned with Mr. Taylor to Te Arero, where we were obliged to delay a day from the dangerous state of the river, several land slips having fallen into the channel during the night. On the 19th we ventured down the Mangamiotene the torrent of water shooting ps past the several rapids at railway speed. In the evening at Parikino, where the natives offered to dispose of a tract of land at Matatara some short distance below their Pa on the left bank of the river extending to the Mangawhero and including probably about twenty five thousand acres of land. This tract of land joins the Wanganui Block and could be acquired on reasonable terms if the ownership of portions of it which is at present disputed by the Ngatiapa of