The other contained a letter addressed by the Ropati natives to His Excellency, and embodying a report of a numerously attended Maori meeting at that settlement. My father forwarded it to me as the natives had expressed a wish that it should be inserted in the ''Messenger''. His account of the Kaiapoi meeting was drawn up with the same view. A reliable correspondent writes to me from Wellington:- ''Last week I saw Tako. He is determined about the King Movement. I tried what I could do with him in the way of argument but to no