to repudiate the charge cannot be considered even as an attempt at refutation. Knowing how Fenton and Armitage were connected to one another - And has that charge against Fenton not been clenched by a declaration published in the said paper by three native Assessors (which 3 individuals have remained at home, now, when hundereds of their neighbors have gone to New Plymouth)? Did any body make any attempt to insinuate that this declaration has been got surruptitiously or that the signatures were forged? No - and for a very final reason - because the truth of it was known by every native in the whole Waikato and Waipa; and it was but a matter of time to get 300 instead of 3 to make the said declaration. Mr. Fenton had no residence on the Waikato during his Magistracy there - nobody knew where to find him when wanted - his visits to the District were, to my best recollection, 3 times in the twelve month - then, too, he appeared late in the evening at a village without any of the scattered inhabitants of either race knowing anything about it except accidentally - and next morning he was gone before business hours. Rangiawhia, where Europeans are most numerously scattered over the country - he only visited once, and then he only stopped long enough to allow some of the inhabitants to learn of his unexpected arrival - they mustered and went to Otawhao to avail themselves of the opportunity to settle the pendences accumulated by two years of no Law, but Fenton was gone.