under my eyes, the natives behaving in the most outrageous manner finally they permitted me to retire with the few articles I had got on the sledge On the 7th Novemr. I again started for Putoko, on a visit of inspection, in passing Mr. Parris homestead I came right on a band of HauHaus from the tribe of Te Whanau a Kai'' they had finished the pillage of the house and had just driven in about thirty pigs belonging to Parr which they were preparing to carry off to Patutahi. I told them I was on my way to see my place they said ''do not go. Roitangi koe, your zinc house has been torn down and melted into bullets and your wooden house has been gutted and completely destroyed so far as furniture inside fittings, doors, windows etc. go - farther the tribe Te whanau a Kai, have seized your land and place so that you cannot return there - your crops and pigs are also destroyed. On receiving this intelligence I thought it adviseable to retire. I have only to add that with the exception of my family's body-clothing I have lost all and am at once reduced to a position of positive destitution. I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedt. S rvt. J. Wyllie