the hands of the natives, like a rolling snowball, it will greatly increase in magnitude; and yet, in a careful comparison, I have found Europeans quite as bad in their exaggerated statements. During the time poor Harris was missing, false rumours were daily - almost hourly - brought into town, and always met with some believers, who, after a fruitless search, by some ingenious process, satisfied themselves that there must have been some truth in it, and so set others off on equally ridiculous speculations. I do not see how the disputed land at Waiongona can effect Europeans, unless to advance their views of acquiring land, and that is not very likely. Speaking of land, I fear this settlement will suffer materially if