about. Do you wish for strife, Mr. McLean? "I will hold all this side, and the other side shall be yours. Rangitikei, Rangitikei, Rangitikei shall be the boundary." - "I now get up to speak. Welcome, welcome, welcome, - my friends, grand-children, and sons, -welcome!" This old Chief recited a piece of poetry; the Ngatiapa joining in the chorus, - "E Kore te po nei tuarua rawa mai."....... "The land, the women, the canoe, the greenstone, are our three great things. I was not the first to take to Europeans. They are new, to me. Do not talk of the evils of other places. Taratoa has come to me four times, to talk about land, about Mokohai, and Rangitoto. We were deciding boundaries before now. Let us not conceal. You will go on, Taratoa, with your talk, and I will go on with mine. Thakara, give up your speaking, as you have done speaking." - "All the people are the Queen's. I will not consent to my land at one time, and object at another. The Governor has all the people, - and I am his also." - "I shall hold our joint property, our joint property, - the Europeans' and ours, or mine, - meaning the South of Rangitikei. Rangitikei 26th. March 1849. Sir, I have the honour to inform you that I have received a communication under date of the 20th. inst. from the Honourable, the Colonial Secretary, at Wellington, in reference to the villages which you are engaged in laying out for the natives at Manawatu, in which I am requested to ascertain and report what are the wishes of the natives, respecting the sites and extents of such villages. May I therefore request that you will inform me at your earliest convenience, whether the Manawatu natives have applied to you, or otherwise to your knowledge expressed a desire to have any other villages laid out in that neighbourhood, besides the one on which you are employed at Te Rewa Rewa. If so, will you be good enough to state the names of the natives making such application, and of the piece where any other village, or villages, is desired by them. It appears to me that it would be desirable to report to the Government, before undertaking any fresh surveys besides Te Rewa Rewa,