and consequently a peace. With regards to the others on the South of N.P. we must have the murderers and compensation and that English law must be extended from the South of Tatoraimaka to the Waitera. Compensationfor sheep driven off and houses burnt may be indefinite because we have also destroyed their pahs but it will leave a door open by which they may offer the lands which are so necessary to consolidate the settlement. Richmond is very ready to meet our views about the payment of important chiefs and by putting the hospitals which cost £2000 off the native civil list and adding the present cost of assessors and pensions we shall have £3400 available, another hundred might be taken out of ''the presents for natives'' so that you might have £3,500 in all. More we shall never get.