as ill-luck would have it, did not take the direction in which they were placed. Otherwise, as the natives say, he must have made for Waitara. The Half-way natives are quite in feather at this brush, and talk loudly of further operations on their part. Our people have been greatly alarmed by earthquakes of late, which rather upset me. Lots of chimneys are down, tottering, or crashed. The "Josephine Willis" experienced the