which runs for some distance nearly parallel with the Rangitikei, in which it empties itself, enclosing a fine tract of land several miles long, between the rivers, which a native, E. Waka, wished to reserve. I learn that the claim of the Ngatiapas, as a tribe, may extend inland from the Te Moiri bush, our present encampment, about six miles; having conjointly with the Wanganui tribes, individual claims beyond that to a settlement named Otara; which has been for the last five years, occupied by a party of Taupo natives. We travelled through the bush, where we encamped the night, and crossed a level on the Porewa banks. Then we