must not give him excessive credit: if left to his own devices he would sometimes purchase an entire stock-on trade, but do not know how to protect him from being plundered by outsiders - Ruth does her best to control him, but she is occasionally away at the ''ruahinga'' etc. and then he launches out: he is becoming rather touchy and testy too, about being advised or interfered with, which never was his wont - Maihi Kawiti has reduced his demand for the rent of the 2 acres required by the Goal Co. to £60 per acre - I believe that Maihi is the owner, and cannot pass the land through the Native Lands Court - the real proprietor being Tamati Pukututu, son of the old chief of that name, whose ''pa'' it was when old Rawiti occupied Kororareka, and who continued to hold it both at the time