landing-place in fine weather, if it is found necessary to send stores by sea. The country south of Umuroa, for a distance of 33 miles, is intersected with deep ravines, and a few rapid mountain streams. The natives are not numerous in this locality. They have a few strong natural fortifications. I enclose a Report and sketch furnished by Mr. Carrington, of the road as far as Tataraimaka. The best means of attacking the Ngatiruanui tribe, would be to effect a landing at Waimate, taking up a position there, and destroying all the Pahs between Kaupukunui and Patea; but this would require a separate expedition, after the Pahs of the Taranaki district are destroyed, and the natives driven into the bush.