on the question. The tides were very unfavourable and we could not get off from Shortland till late in the evening - we arrived at Ohinemuri at 12 o'clock midnight - just to find that the principal men I wanted to see were away. Early in the morning the natives began to assemble and to lay seige to the whare where I slept. Paora Toki was the first manhe told me a long story of his delinquencies - how wrongly he had acted and that he was determined to turn over a new leaf and a great lot to the same effect. I could only reply that it would yet be seen whether his professions were sincere. While I was