cultivation we came to; and feelingly described the agency of a disease termed Rewa-rewa, which must have prevailed fifty or sixty years ago; as having been more fatal and destructive to their race than the most sanguine wars of invading tribes. Before night had quite set in, we were close to the Rangitikei river, having walked since morning, a distance of twenty-four miles; which, including the short stage we made yesterday, would leave us about thirty miles from where we left the banks of the Turakina river. During the day, some few boundary marks were made by the natives, who erected a pole on the Ngongoronui range, where we descended to the Porewa stream, which runs for some distance nearly parallel with the Rangitikei, in which it empties itself, enclosing a fine tract of land several miles long, between the rivers, which a native, E. Waka, wished to reserve. I learn that the claim of the Ngatiapas, as a tribe, may extend inland from the Te Moiri bush, our present encampment, about six miles; having conjointly with the Wanganui tribes, individual claims beyond that to a settlement named Otara; which has been for the last five years, occupied by a party of Taupo natives. We travelled through the bush, where we encamped the night, and crossed a level on the Porewa banks. Then we ascended the Kiri Kiri bush, on a path frequented by the natives travelling to Taupo. On this range, boundaries were placed by E. Waka and other natives, who intended to reserve large tracts of land there, and prevent the Europeans from getting further inland. They were, however, induced to relinquish this boundary, on its being represented to them that native claims intersecting those of Europeans would lead to future discontent. The country we were now walking over on the North bank of the Rangitikei, being considerably elevated, I was afforded an extensive view of the splen- -did Tataenui plain; which is equally well suited for pasture or the plough, from the great facility with which it could be turned over, merely burning off the present overgrowth of vegetation, and removing the few isolated Ti-trees, which are scattered over the plain. At Porewhara, sixteen miles from our last stage, we found some natove plantations owned by Panapa, a Ngatapa Chief, a man of most powerful and forbidding countenance, who deserted his tribe and joined Rangihaeata= threatening, with that Chief, to use his utmost influence in preventing the sale of the district. Our reception was not the most friendly. The natives, excepting a few who came up from Parananui to meet me, strongly exclaimed against the sale of their land. Panapa erected a flag staff that morning, where his claim, which is considerable, commenced; stating that he would die by it, before he would cede his land.