marked off or any thing further be done --- they say it is a breach of faith on your part and declare they will not let the land go and many other threats of the like nature, another reason I have for sending you these Reports is that I fear Puaha has been playing false as you will see by them that he has visited several places about a month or two since particularly Tory Channel, Maharapahu, the large Reserve at the Wairau, etc. etc. and told the Natives to hold on by all means to their land at those places till they are paid that he did not sell those localities and they will therefore have to make their own bargain. You will thus have it in your power to confront him with these saying and doings of his before you come over. I have had a large body (about 200) of Natives here from the Pelorus, Q.C.Sound, etc. who were in a great taking about the second payment you have given, they threatened to remove the pegs Mr.Brunner had put in to mark out their Reserves