Native Office in Auckland, having made up the package and addressed it to you yourself; so I cannot-account for the miscarriage. I sincerely trust it will not be lost. The Reminiscences of Waikato are still in hand. I am endeavouring to extend it a little beyond the first indention, but notwithstanding personal experience, I perceive from the reports that Rewi and the Maniopoto have seceded from Matutaera and his party. It will, I have no doubt, create an amount of complication and anxiety; but in the end will prove beneficial. "A house divided in itself can never