such reliable information as the Major General may require, in making his military dispositions. To impart as much information as can be gathered by persons acquainted with the native language, as additional Officer, Mr. W. Carrington, has been employed for this purpose; together with Mr. Drummond Hay, temporarily attached to the force at Waitara. The expedition to Taranaki would occupy a fortnight of good weather; and that to Ngatiruanui, about three weeks. The whole of the accessible Pahs in the above district could be destroyed in that time; and it may afterwards become a question, if such expeditions failed in effecting