with their countrymen, as might be expected, but no fear of their rights to land being invaded, or of their becoming land-less, urged them to take up arms against the Government. The natives of the Interior, or of districts where but little intercourse had been held with the settlers or the Government, were those most resolutely opposed to us. The Ngatiruanui, who had preserved their splendid country on the south of Mt. Egmont, intact from the Whiteman, and the Waitara who had no reason to fear the intrusion of the pakeha in their mountain fastnesses, and who had never sold an inch of land, or been asked to sell - these - entirely unprovoked, - were the most persistent of the enemy, the first to resort to arms, and the last, after repeated defeats, to submit. From the time that Maketu was hanged for the murder of the Robertsons, the Maori became sensible that the strangers would be the dominant race. If