to any of the real and more remote causes which led to it. If the Waitara alone was the only cause of this insurrection the Natives had every opportunity afforded to them of having the question enquired into and decided in a peaceable manner, but this was resisted not only by Wm. King but also by the Waikatos, and it is now fully proved that the giving up of that land if it formed the real cause of grievance has not in any way altered or diminished the hostility of the Natives. It has been put in their mouths and it is both politic and convenient for the Natives to let this question be used as a pretext for enabling them by European sympathy expressed on this subject to carry out the deeper and more dangerous