I think there is a turn of the tide there, though scarcely definite enough yet to justify the location of a R.M. which they ask for. The Peace Proclamation seems not to have had much effect here. I was in Waikato till yesterday and could hear nothing of it. Old Naylor said "it was all right to say let there be peace, but the King party would not listen. They considered that it meant the surrender of their "Rangatira tanga", and that those who accepted of its terms would become "taurekarekas". "How about Thompson?" I asked - "Well perhaps - bye and bye." was the answer. Thompson's son a lad of 18 or 20 has signed the declaration of allegiance and given up a gun at Awamutu, after which he started to see his father but was met by a message that if he came back he would shoot him. This may be true or not - but at all events the lad returned to Awamutu