mode of colonizing and take the matter into their own hands. The country in and around Ohinemuri must in a year or two pass out of Native hands and is from its position one that the Government should have the control over. The present friendly attitude of the King party has evidently caused a change for the better in the feelings of resident Hauhaus and it might perhaps be a question as to whether the Kiriwera section should now be anyway consulted. Puckey will send his report