up to his whare. In asking him what he meant by so far departing from my instructions he replied that "the Makarini told me to make a very good road and as he supplies the money he knows best what sort of a road should be made". The rest is explained in my official letter. He should get £25 for work done on this side of Mohaka. The Natives have such a mania just now for road making that I believe they might be got to work without any pay at