is appointed and I have already paved the way for him. There is no disposition on the part of the Natives here to fight but they irritate and annoy to such an extent that at any moment we may have an outbreak - a few days ago a row took place about five miles from town, it appears the aggressors were a vagrant party from Taupo or Waikato, one of them was reaching down or attempting to take something off a shelf and he had to stand on the counter to get at it, he was however noticed by the owner of the house whom he violently challenged to fight, before they came to blows other Natives interposed and put a stop to it the aggressors were not without supporters who came a distance of one or two miles with bludgeons to attack the Europeans when the police stopped the quarrel. Again they refuse to allow a road over Native land to connest European properties