further extension of the armistice was agreed to by te Moana-nui. The natives who had arrived from the Wairoa as a mediating party, finding that there was now every probability of an amicable termination to the feud had left for their own homes on the 20th January accompanied by the Rev. James Hamlin. On the 7th February the first detachment of a body of troops to be stationed in the Ahuriri District arrived in the Barque Eastfield under the Com