enmity, was not calculated to add to his own popularity, or advancement. Whatever may be the motives which actuated him, it is clearly the duty of the Government to use every effort to secure his co-operation. The ice is now broken; and if proper caution be observed, I do not think it will be a difficult matter to gain him over to our side. I would be disposed to treat him liberally; and to confer upon him some authority, within his own district, whenever he openly declares his withdrawal from the Waikatos, and the section of natives antagonistic to Europeans. The firm resistance on the part of Poihipi to any interference from Rewi, in obstruction to road and telegraph works in Taupo, the withdrawal of a large secttion of the Ngatiraukawa from HauHauism, and the King Party, and the surrender of the Urewera, are all unmistakeable signs to Rewi of the hopelessness of his adherence to a faction of which he is still looked upon as a nominal head.