before he would cede his land. His language, which was violent, was evidently borrowed from Rangihaeata, who, I understood, from some of his natives on the journey to Taupo, was very much vexed that the Europeans were acquiring a right to such a large territory in a part of the country where his retreat into the interior might be interrupted, should he, at a future period, find it necessary to take refuge there. Paroni, a Ngatiraukawa Chief, married to a Ngatiapa woman, stated that he intended to retain some wooded land, claimed in right of his wife. E. Waka, who had not succeeded in inducing me to agree to his constant demand for Reserves, was now