purpose of upholding the land league in that part of the Island, and of resisting the Queens authority. The tribes assembled at Ngaruawahia to confirm the election of Potatau in 1860 after war had commenced at Taranaki fully admitted that they had no interest in the Waitara land that Potatau had sold it and that the real question at issue between them and the Govt. was the question of jurisdiction referring frequently to the hanging of Maketu as the first offence against their nationality and to all the subsequent proceedings of a judicial nature to which the Natives had been subjected to since New Zealand became a British Colony these were only spoken of as the chief motives for having a separate jurisdiction a separate King and law of their own. (McLean's handwriting) 1863 (?)