and candidly and temperately advanced his opinions. He has a great deal of good sense on his side, and from his point of view his statements are unanswerable at least most of them. He told me to pay no attention to some of their angry speeches amongst themselves - that they were merely "te ka o te mangai" and that was all. Hophepa says that he hopes that the day is not far distant when we shall be able to settle all our differences and establish a permanent peace, he said that he was speaking with advise. After I got what I wanted in the shape of information I took leave of them. They begged me to go