This Meeting, however, has been productive of more important results than may be gathered by reading over the Minutes. The Ngatiraukawas, who, at several public Meetings of their tribe, held at Manawatu and Otaki, declared their determination to prevent the sale of any land South of Wangaehu, - have, in the time elapsing from the first of January to the fifteenth of March, so far altered their determination, that they have acknowledged the right of the Ngatiapa to sell, as far South as Rangitikei, thereby placing the original proprietors and legitimate owners of that district in a more favourable position for the Government to treat with them for claims which had been so long agitated and disputed by Rangihaeata, and the powerful Ngatiraukawa tribe. It has also placed the Ngatiraukawas in a position to protect, rather than aid in molesting settlers at Rangitikei; and has been the means of breaking through a combination on their part, and several other tribes in correspondence with them; who resolved, embodying their resolutions in a written document drawn up at their Public Meetings, to make a stand against the further acquisition of land by the Europeans, excepting by way of annual lease for cattle grazings. This purchase once undertaken, and persevered in, by the Government, will induce many of these tribes (especially the Ngatitiupokoiri, of Manawatu, and those inhabiting Ahuriri and the East Coast, who are in communication with, and connected with the Ngatiapa of Rangitikei) to offer their superfluous land for sale to the Government. I have much pleasure in noticing the Turakina Pah 24th. April 1849. My dear Sir, I take advantage of to-day's mail to acquaint your Excellency that the Mongowhero tribe have offered to dispose of a tract of country on the North banks of the Wangaehu, forming a continuation of the land offered for sale "by the Ngatiapas, and bounding the Wanganui purchase on the East, by the Mongowhero river, which empties into the Wangaehu, about 24 miles inland from the Coast. At the request of the natives, Mr. Park and I started up the Wangaehu on the 18th. inst. to see this country, which is of a more broken and hilly description towards the interior than the Rangitikei. But the soil is rich and fertile, well wooded, with several eligible sites for the location of agricultural settlers. A short distance from the banks of the Wangaehu, there are extensive flats of table-land, extending Westwards towards the Wanganui purchase. Mr. Park is at present engaged surveying a Reserve for the Turakina natives, including their Pah and cultivations,