would take care of them. About 30 Natives spoke at the meeting which occupied the greater part of the day the sentiments expressed were so similar to Neros that I need not here advert to them as I a sending a detailed account for insertion in the Maori Messenger. Before the meeting closed I spoke at some length to the Natives informing that the Europeans were his great property that the Governor openely agreed under the shining sun to let them occupy the land he conveyed to the Queen, it was therefore his duty to befriend them, some had turned their backs on the Europeans, the Governor would not be alarmed if they should all do so, as it was certain they would soon discover their mistake and come back to the fountain from which they derived their most durable prosperity. I glanced at the former lawless state of the Island, at the folly of a few small tribes contending with the inhabitants of a great nation using some figurative expression such as the drying up of the smaller streams of the country by the summers aun and the absorption of others by the great ocean that never dried up or ceased